Martha Gellhorn
Novelist, Author
1908 – 1998
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Who was Martha Gellhorn?
Martha Ellis Gellhorn was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, considered by the London Daily Telegraph, among others, to be one of the greatest 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. At the age of 89, ill and almost completely blind, she committed suicide. The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism is named after her.
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- Born
- Nov 8, 1908
St. Louis - Also known as
- Martha Ellis Gellhorn
- Martha Gellhorn
- Marta Gellhorn
- Марта Гельхорн
- Parents
- Spouses
- Ernest Hemingway
(1940/11/05 - 1945/12/21) - T.S. Mathews
(1954 - 1963) - Bertrand de Jouvenel
(1933 - )
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bryn Mawr College
(1926 - 1927) - John Burroughs School
- Bryn Mawr College
- Employment
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration
- War correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly Group
- JTE Multimedia
- Lived in
- Paris
- Philadelphia
- St. Louis
- Died
- Feb 15, 1998
London
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on July 23, 2013
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