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American war correspondent (1908–1998)

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] She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career.

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Discover the life of one of the twentieth century's most significant and notorious war correspondents, and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.

The controversial biography of the great American journalist and traveller who reported on wars from Spain to Panama, married (and left) Ernest Hemingway.

Martha Gellhorn is a woman one both loves and hates.

She was the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945.

She died in 1998 by apparent suicide at the age of 89, ill and almost completely blind.^[4]

The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism is named after her.

Early life

Gellhorn was born on 8 November 1908, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Edna Fischel Gellhorn, a suffragist, and George Gellhorn, a German-born gynecologist.^[5][6] Her father and maternal grandfather were Jewish, and her maternal grandmother came from a Protestant family.^[5] Her brother Walter became a noted law profe