The Women Behind the Men

The women behind famous men in history, many of whom deserved the spotlight themselves.
Updated October 2, 2022
Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
Mrs Hemingway
Naomi Wood
Paper Book
In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge, drink gin, have parties - and everywhere they go they are accompanied by the glamorous, irrepressible Fife. She is Ernest's lover. Hadley is...
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
Nancy Horan
Paper Book
From Nancy Horan, the New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes the passionate and turbulent story of Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Therese Anne Fowler
Paper Book
'I wish I could tell everyone who thinks we're ruined...Look closer, and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.' When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is...
Love and Ruin
Paula McLain
Paper Book
The Other Einstein
Marie Benedict
Ebook
Lady Clementine
Marie Benedict
Paper Book
From Marie Benedict, the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room! An incredible novel that focuses on one of the people with the most influence during World War I and World War II: Clementine Churchill. In 1909, Clementine steps off a train with her new husband,...

Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.