 Although her family later moved to Piggott, Arkansas, Pfeiffer stayed in Missouri to study at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, graduating in 1918.After working at newspapers in Cleveland and New York, Pfeiffer switched to magazines, working for "Vanity Fair" and "Vogue".A move to Paris for "Vogue" led to her meeting Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson, in 1926.