For good book group discussion, I recommend The Paris Wife by Paula McLain.  This is a fictionalized story of the marriage of Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway, spanning the years 1920 through 1927.

Hadley Richardson was 28 years old when she met the dashing 21 year old Ernest Hemingway while visiting a friend in Chicago.  Hadley had grown up in St. Louis, well-to-do and privileged, but her father lost the family’s fortune and then committed suicide, leaving Hadley and her mother in reduced circumstances.   Hadley was an accomplished pianist, but her mother never gave her much encouragement, and was critical of Hadley’s day-dreamy ways.  Lacking high self-esteem and ambition, Hadley was unfocused and drifting when she dropped out of Bryn Mawr after one term.  She never would have imagined receiving the attention of someone as attractive and driven as Ernest Hemingway.  But, they fell in love, and married.    

Theirs was a great romance. Living in a dreary apartment in Chicago, Ernest was writing poetry and stories, when he gained the attention of Sherwood Anderson, who advised him to go to Paris for the good of his career.  In Paris, the Hemingways lived in equally unfashionable apartments, but they experience the charm and romance of the city, the excitement of fast-living in a time that percolated with ideas, creativity, and much too much alcohol.  We meet Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Ezra Pound, John dos Passos,  Archibald MacLeish, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, and a host of Lost Generation expatriates. 
The story takes us to bullfights in Spain, hiking in Switzerland and fishing in the Rhine.  It was a heady life.  But Hadley began to realize that whereas her women friends benefitted from the efforts the suffragettes who came before them by having careers and projects of their own, Hadley had been so absorbed in Hemingway’s work that her own identity was subsumed.  With the publication of Hemingway’s first big success, The Sun Also Rises, the sun sets on his marriage to Hadley.   

Mindful that this story is fictionalized, it is still a very interesting portrayal of one of America’s most iconic literary figures and a bittersweet story of a likeable woman who got caught up in his orbit.