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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.
Among his wartime lovers were the film star Marlene Dietrich [47] and journalist Martha Gellhorn. [48] Gavin and his wife Irma divorced after World War II in 1947. He married Jean Emert Duncan of Knoxville, Tennessee, in July 1948 and remained married to her until his death in 1990. He adopted Jean's daughter, Caroline Ann, by her first marriage.
This was the separation phase of a slow and painful split from Pauline, which began when Hemingway met Martha Gellhorn. [102] Martha soon joined him in Cuba, and they rented Finca Vigía ("Lookout Farm"), a 15-acre (61,000 m 2) property 15 miles (24 km) from Havana. That summer while visiting with Pauline and the children in Wyoming, she took ...
Edna Fischel Gellhorn was born on December 18, 1878, in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father taught clinical medicine as a professor at Washington University School of Medicine and helped co-found the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital. Her mother was Martha Ellis Fischel. Both parents were involved in the Ethical Culture Society of St. Louis ...
Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) – war correspondent; Bob Greene (born 1947) – journalist; Frances Nimmo Greene (1867–1937) – editor, woman's page of The Birmingham News; Ruth Gruber (1911–2016) – journalist; Emily Hahn (1905–1997) – wrote extensively on China; David Halberstam (1934–2007) – foreign correspondent, political and ...
War correspondent Martha Gellhorn met Ernest Hemingway in 1936, and, despite Hemingway's marriage to journalist Pauline Pfeiffer, their flirtatious friendship quickly became romantic. Their own ...
In 1937, on a trip to Spain, Hemingway began an affair with Martha Gellhorn. [3] Pfeiffer and he were divorced on November 4, 1940, and he married Gellhorn three weeks later. [ 3 ]
Gellhorn was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 18, 1906 [1] to suffragist Edna Fischel Gellhorn and George Gellhorn. His sister was the war correspondent and novelist Martha Gellhorn, and his younger brother Alfred was an oncologist and dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. [2]