they were actually living together in a hotel in madrid under shell fire while the second wife, pauline pfeifferand his two sons with pauline were back home here. >> how many children? >> three altogether. one with his first wife, elizabeth hadley richardson, and two boy was pauline pfeiffer. >> next call is newtown square, pennsylvania. go ahead. caller, you are on c-span. go ahead. >> caller: hello. >> pennsylvania, please speak up. we can hear you. >> yes, this is for dr. miller, actually, linda miller. i happen to have a copy of her book "the letters from the lost generation" and it's actual lay wonderful book and chro chronics beautifully the life among all the artists at that time. particularly, i would like to get her feel on the relationship between hemmingway and fit fitzgerald when they were in paris. i also enjoyed "a moveable feast" which documented that time, as well. >> thanks, linda miller, as you answer, i am going to ask you, i know you spent a lot of time on this relationship, but not just the personal one, put it in the larger context of history and the society at the time, pl

he was returning from paris with his second wife pauline pfeiffer.as pregnant with their first child, seven months pregnant, and the idea was to -- they actually took an ocean liner from the port la rochelle to cuba and they were going to pick up a car here. pauline's rich uncle gus was going to give them a model coupe that she could drive in arkansas and the car wasn't ready when they got here so the ford dealership gave them a little apartment. and they spent six weeks here waiting for that car and during that time hemingway just fell in love with the place. he was writing a farewell to arms and he was getting a lot of work done and met some local people who took him out fishing. one of my friends likes to say the first time he got a 30 pound tarp on a 2 pound line. he was really hooked on key west. and so after that visit they kept returning for the next two years and then in 1931 bought their home here. >> if you haven't been to key west, let's give you a little bit of sense of place so you know where we are. if you were to land at the miami airp