'Paris Wife' Author Paula McLain to Appear at Ashton Place

and other local libraries will cap off a month of French-themed activities Thursday with a visit from author Paula McLain to Ashton Place, 341 75th Street in Willowbrook.

McLain's novel The Paris Wife was this year's Big Read selection. The Big Read is a program that unites local readers with a series of events related to a single book.

During Thursday's program, which begins at 7 p.m., McLain will discuss the motivation and research that went into writing The Paris Wife. The book is a fictionalized account of Hadley Richardson's marriage to Ernest Hemingway as the couple moves to Paris and becomes immersed in the world of Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 

Register for the free talk here.