Journalist Martha Gellhorn

Who is Journalist Martha Gellhorn?
Martha Gellhorn Ellis is an American novelist, and a travel journalist, widely regarded as one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. happenings are all reflected in her writings taking place during her 60-year career. Gellhorn is also known as the third wife of the American novelist - Ernest Hemingway. At the age of 89, ill and almost completely blind, she passed away in 1998. In recognition of her dedication, a prestigious award named the Martha Gellhom Prize was born.
During the years. Her last, Gellhorn was in poor health, was almost blind, and had ovarian cancer that had spread to her liver. On 15 February 1998, she committed suicide in London by swallowing a cyanide tablet.

In 1926, Gellhorn graduated from John Burroughs School in St Louis and attended Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia. In 1927, even though she hadn't graduated yet, she left school to pursue another career as a journalist. Her first article was published and appeared in The New Republic.
In 1930, determined to become a foreign correspondent she traveled to France for two years and worked at the United Press office. in Paris. While in Europe, she was active in the peace movement and in 1934 after her own experiences completed her book "What Mad Pursuit". In the United States, Gellhorn was hired by Harry Hopkins, Gellhorn traveled around the United States reporting to FERA - the federal government's emergency relief on the impact of the recession across the country. She first traveled to Gastonia, North Carolina where she met photographer Dorothea Lange who, using her observational and communication skills, captured every moment of people's daily lives. homelessness and poverty, the things that people are affected by the recession. With her hard-working enthusiasm the reports of her and her companion photographer Dorothea Lange became important news to the Government about the Great Depression of the day. This is considered a great contribution to American history by journalist Gellhom as well as photographer Lange.
In 1936, Gellhorm took a trip to Key West, Florida on a near Christmas occasion to report on the situation. weekly Spanish Civil War pictures for Collier.
Later, during the outbreak of World War II she traveled from Germany and then to Czechoslovakia to monitor the rise of Hitler's German army and be she described it very roc in her novel A Stricken Field, which was published in 1940. Then the wars in Finland, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Singapore, and England were all observed and recorded by her. She was also one of the first journalists to report from the Dachau concentration camp after it was liberated by the Allies.
After the war, Gellhorn worked for Atlantic Monthly all of the Vietnam War. and the Arab-Israeli conflicts of the 1960s-1970s were both tracked and reported by her. By 1979, but still working despite being over 70 years old, the civil wars in Central America or the American invasion of Panama were all recorded by her.
In 1990, she began to retire, With her eyesight impaired during a trip abroad in Brazil in 1995 to report on poverty reduction in the country, her eyesight was permanently lost, she could not continue to work nor read the manuscript of the book. himself.
Gellhorn published several books, including a collection of articles on war such as: The Face of War (1959); The Lowest Trees Have Tops (1967), a McCarthyism novel; Travels With Myself and Another (1978); and a collection of journalism taking place in peacetime entitled The View From the Ground (1988)

Gellhorn is the daughter of Edna Fischel Gellhorn and George Gellhorn, her mother is a German-born gynecologist. Her father and grandfather were of Jewish ancestry, and her grandmother came from a Protestant family. Her family has three brothers, above her brother Walter Gellhorn who became a noted law professor at Columbia University. Below her was a younger brother named Alfred Gellhorn, a specialist physician, and former dean of the Medical University of Pennsylvania.
Gellhorn's first love was with a French economist named
i>Bertrand de Jouvenel. This affair began in 1930, when she was 22 years old, and lasted until 1934.
She and Hemingway met in 1936 in Key West, Florida. ; They were married in May 1940 after Hemingway divorced his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer. However, due to many quarrels, this marriage only lasted until 1945.
While married to Hemingway, Gellhorn had an affair with Major General James M. Gavin of the United States, the joint commander of the US Army. The 82nd Division and Gavin were the youngest division commanders in the US Army during World War II.
In 1954, she married former Time magazine editor-in-chief, Dr. Matthews, and moved to London. , which is becoming his home for the rest of his life. She and Matthews divorced in 1963.

Who is Boy friend/ husband/ darling Journalist Martha Gellhorn?
Her first husband was the famous writer Ernest Hemingway.
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was one of her friends.

How tall is Journalist Martha Gellhorn? What Martha Gellhorn's weight?
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When was Journalist Martha Gellhorn born?
Martha Gellhorn was born in 8-11-1908, death year is , at the age of 116.
Where is Journalist Martha Gellhorn's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Martha Gellhorn was born in St. Louis, Missouri- United States. Ms working and living in London, of England. Ms, whose Zodiac is Scorpius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. Martha Gellhorn's global rank is 56408 and whose rank is 248 in list of famous Journalist. Population of US in 1908 is about 88,710,000 persons.

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Martha Gellhorn with novelist Hemingways in her young days

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Matha Gellhorn in her youth