I was inspired to read A Moveable Feast after learning that Hemingway helped organize the French resistance in WWII, made possible in part by the years he spent living in Paris in the 1920s.
When American troops entered Paris,
Hemingway, pulling up to the Ritz with two truckloads of his French irregulars, told the bartender, ‘How about seventy-three dry martinis?’ Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light
A Moveable Feast reads like a memoir, but it’s unclear to what extent the stories in the book are true. Regardless, I felt that the book was a good introduction to Hemingway. It certainly romanticizes living abroad and becoming a writer.
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.