Journalist and writer Martha Gellhorn was the first wife of which author?
Martha Gellhorn Martha Gellhorn Martha Ellis Gellhorn (November 8, 1908 – February 15, 1998) was an 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. She died in 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. Gellhorn was born on November 8, 1908, in St.
Martha Gellhorn of the Art Museum; states who had not enfranchised women were draped in black. In the front row were two little girls, Mary Taussig and Martha Gellhorn, representing future voters. Gellhorn graduated in 1926 from John Burroughs School in St. Louis, and enrolled in Bryn Mawr College, several miles outside Philadelphia. In 1927, she left, without having graduated, to pursue a career as a journalist. Her first published 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. While