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Jul 12, 2018 · Martha Gellhorn met Ernest Hemingway when she was 28 and he was 37. She covered wars around the world, but he wanted her home, tending to his needs. She ultimately left him—his only wife to do ...
Aug 18, 2017 · Martha Gellhorn (November 8, 1908 – February 15, 1998) was best known as an American war correspondent, though she was a prolific writer of fiction and memoir as well. She was the third wife of iconic American author Ernest Hemingway. Gellhorn is ranked among the top war journalists of the twentieth century — and didn’t wish to be ...
Feb 12, 2018 · In November 1929, Martha Gellhorn was working “the mortuary beat” as a cub reporter for the Albany Times Union, having dropped out of Bryn Mawr one year shy of her degree. Edna Gellhorn, Martha’s suffragette mother, and Eleanor Roosevelt had been Bryn Mawr students together, so Mrs. Roosevelt invited twenty-one-year-old Martha to dinner ...
The novelist and war journalist was also a wife of Ernest Hemingway. When the writer Martha Gellhorn died in 1998, her obituaries focused on two things. One was her work as one of the twentieth century’s most prolific war correspondents. The other was her brief stint as Ernest Hemingway’s third wife.
Dec 3, 2019 · Gellhorn’s own mail to Hemingway, until they divorced, is steeped in love and features a charming collection of pet names for him and his most precious part (nicknamed “Scroobie”).
Jan 3, 1999 · Martha Gellhorn married twice, the second time to T. S. Matthews, the Time editor. The marriage did not endure. Of her intimate life generally, the word ''private'' comes to mind. But like many ...
Mar 11, 2020 · Martha Gellhorn: Writer, Warrior, Witness. Journalist and novelist railed against injustice, covered combat—and gave Ernest Hemingway the boot. by Janet Somerville 3/11/2020. American novelist and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn at a press conference held at the offices of the Spanish Refugee Appeal in New York City, circa 1946.
