Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn (8 November 1908 - 15 February 1998) was an American novelist and journalist considered one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. During her sixty-year career, she reported on virtually every major world conflict which took place during that period. Gellhorn was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945. credit unknown/untraceable This work is copyrighted. ... November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... [[Image:Hemmingway. ...

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Gellhorn graduated from that city's John Burroughs School and enrolled in Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia. In 1927, she left before graduating to pursue a career as a journalist. Her first articles appeared in The New Republic. In 1930, determined to become a foreign correspondent, she went to France for two years where she worked at the United Press bureau in Paris. The Gateway Arch, shown here behind the Old Courthouse, is the most recognizable part of the St. ... Founded in 1923, John Burroughs School (JBS) is a private, non-sectarian preparatory school with nearly 600 students in grades 7-12. ... Bryn Mawr College is a womens liberal-arts college located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, northwest of Philadelphia. ... Philadelphia is a village located in Jefferson County, New York. ... Cover from the August 30th, 2004 issue. ... United Press International (UPI) is a global news agency headquartered in the United States filing news in English, Spanish and Arabic. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

While in Europe she became active in the pacifist movement and wrote about her experiences in the book, What Mad Pursuit (1934). Pacifism is opposition to war. ...

Upon returning to the US, Gellhorn was hired by Harry Hopkins as an investigator for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, which sent her to report about the impact of the Depression on the United States. Her reports for that agency caught the attention of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the two women became lifelong friends. Her findings were the basis of a novella, The Trouble I've Seen (1936). Harry Lloyd Hopkins Harry Lloyd Hopkins (August 17, 1890 – January 29, 1946) was one of Franklin Roosevelts closest advisors and one of the key architects of the New Deal. ... Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was the committee established as a result of Federal Emergency Relief Act. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Eleanor Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American human rights activist, diplomat and as the wife of President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, the longest serving First Lady of the United States from 1933-1945. ...

In 1937, Gellhorn was hired by Collier's Weekly to report the Spanish Civil War. While in Spain, she met Ernest Hemingway; the couple later married in 1940. Gellhorn subsequently travelled to Germany where she reported the rise of Adolf Hitler and in 1938 was in Czechoslovakia. After the outbreak of World War II, she wrote about these events in the novel, A Stricken Field (1940). She later reported from Finland, Hong Kong, Burma, Singapore and Britain. Lacking official press credentials, she impersonated a stretcher bearer in order to witness the D-Day landings. As Gellhorn later recalled, "I followed the war wherever I could reach it." Colliers Weekly was a American magazine that was published between 1888 and 1957. ... History of Spain series Prehistoric Spain Roman Spain Muslim Conquest of Iberia Timeline of Muslim Occupation Medieval Spain Age of Reconquest Age of Expansion Age of Enlightenment Reaction and Revolution First Spanish Republic The Restoration Second Spanish Republic Spanish Civil War The Dictatorship Modern Spain Topics Economic History Military History...   Adolf Hitler? (April 20, 1889–April 30, 1945) was the Chancellor of Germany from 1933, and Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Chancellor) of Germany from 1934, to his death. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe... Land on Normandy In military parlance, D-Day is a term often used to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. ...

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After the war, Gellhorn worked for the Atlantic Monthly, covering the Vietnam War, the Six-Day War in the Middle East and the civil wars in Central America. Only when the Bosnian war broke out in the 1990s did she concede she was too old to go: "You need to be nimble." credit unknown/untreaceable This work is copyrighted. ... The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine that was founded in November 1857. ... The Vietnam War or Second Indochina War was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the National Liberation Front (NLF, or Viet Cong) against the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam), and their allies—notably the United States military in support of... The Six-Day War (Hebrew: מלחמת ששת הימים transliteration: Milhemet Sheshet Hayamim), also known as the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Six Days War, or June War, was fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... Central America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. ...

Gellhorn published a large number of books including a collection of articles on war, The Face of War (1959), a novel about McCarthyism, The Lowest Trees Have Tops (1967), an account of her travels (including one trip with Ernest Hemingway), Travels With Myself and Another (1978) and a collection of her peacetime journalism, The View From the Ground (1988). Gellhorn died in London in 1998 at the age of 89.

Gellhorn resented her fame as Hemingway's third wife, remarking that she had no intention of being a footnote in someone else's life. As a condition for granting an interview, at times she insisted that Hemingway's name not be mentioned.

External links

• "Remembering Martha Gellhorn" (Atlantic Monthly)
• "Marth's quest" (Salon.com)
• Granta authors: Martha Gellhorn
• Review of "Martha Gellhorn: A Life" (The Age)