 In the 1920s Troutman, with her husband, portrait painter Waldo Peirce, joined the colony of American expatriates in Paris that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.Ivy Troutman was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, the middle of three daughters raised by John J. Troutman and Lyda H. West.Her father, a native of New York, was a carpenter by trade.