# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paula-mclain
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:14:57.484Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paula-mclain"
name: "Paula McLain"
slug: "paula-mclain"
description: "Paula McLain is an American author best known for her novel, The Paris Wife, a fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway's first marriage which became a long-time New York Times bestseller. She has published two collections of poetry, a memoir about growing up in the foster system, and the novel A Ticket to Ride."
tagline: "American author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paula_mclain_030582.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965-10-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.3
  momentum:             0.2893890675241158
  historical:           6.83456
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paula_McLain"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD"
    title: "Пола Маклейн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_McLain"
    title: "Paula McLain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_McLain"
    title: "Paula McLain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_McLain"
    title: "Paula McLain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_McLain"
    title: "Paula McLain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%98%D0%BD"
    title: "Пола Меклејн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD"
    title: "Пола Маклейн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13564244"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump