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Martha Gellhorn. Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998) [1] was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. [2] [3] Gellhorn reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career.
- 1934–1998
- Walter Gellhorn (brother)
Martha Gellhorn was a novelist, travel writer, journalist, and a pioneering war correspondent who covered most of the major conflicts of the 20th century. ... She committed suicide at her home in ...
Apr 2, 2024 · Martha Gellhorn (born November 8, 1908, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died February 15, 1998, London, England) American journalist and novelist who, as one of the first female war correspondents, candidly described ordinary people in times of unrest. Though often remembered for her brief marriage to American author Ernest Hemingway, Gellhorn ...
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Jan 3, 1999 · Ward Just profile of Martha Gellhorn, famous war correspondent and one of notables who died in 1998; photo of Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway, her third husband, in 1940 (S)
Apr 26, 2018 · When civil war erupted in Bosnia in the early 1990s, Martha grudgingly admitted she was too old to go. “You have to be nimble,” she reportedly said. A woman who felt alive only while in motion was being forced, at last, to slow down. Gellhorn died on February 15, 1998, at age eighty-nine.
Oct 6, 2003 · Embed. Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life. Henry Holt and Co. From the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s through the Vietnam War, Martha Gellhorn covered the major conflicts of her day. Best known as ...
May 22, 2012 · "Martha Gellhorn, for 30 years after Hemingway's death, in a way was the bearer of the Hemingway code," Kaufman says. "She went to all the battlefields of all the major wars of her time.
