Gellhorn, Martha
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| Birthname | Martha Ellis Gellhorn | ||||
| born on | 8 November 1908 | ||||
| Place | Saint Louis, Missouri, 38n38, 90w12 | ||||
| Timezone | CST h6w (is standard time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   15°57'  
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Biography
American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century.
She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career. Gellhorn was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945.
Gellhorn published numerous books, including a collection of articles on war, The Face of War (1959); The Lowest Trees Have Tops (1967), a novel about McCarthyism; an account of her travels (including one trip with Hemingway), Travels with Myself and Another (1978); and a collection of her peacetime journalism, The View from the Ground (1988).
She died on 15 February 1998 in an apparent suicide at the age of 89, ill and almost completely blind.
The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism is named after her.
Relationships
- spouse relationship with Hemingway, Ernest (born 21 July 1899)
- role played of/by Banes, Lisa (born 9 July 1955). Notes: 1988 TV miniseries "Hemingway"
Source Notes
Birth time is unknown. Starkman rectified to 13.34.20 CST Asc 29Aqu18'
Categories
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction
- Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession
