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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.
Hemingway & Gellhorn is a 2012 American biographical drama television film directed by Philip Kaufman and written by Jerry Stahl and Barbara Turner, about the lives of journalist Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman) and her husband, writer Ernest Hemingway . The film premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and aired on HBO on May 28, 2012. [2]
Mariel Hemingway (born November 22, 1961) is an American actress. She began acting at age 14 with a Golden Globe-nominated breakout role in Lipstick (1976), and she received Academy and BAFTA Award nominations for her performance in Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979).
The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, named for the war correspondent, Martha Gellhorn, was established in 1999 by the Martha Gellhorn Trust. [citation needed] The Trust is a UK-registered charity. [1] The award is founded on the following principles:
Gellhorn is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: Edna Fischel Gellhorn (1878–1970), American suffragist, mother of Martha Gellhorn; Ernest Gellhorn (1935–2005), American academic and legal scholar; Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998), American novelist, travel writer, journalist, war correspondent
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]
Hemingway lived in the house from mid-1939 to 1960, first renting it, and then buying it in December 1940 after he married Martha Gellhorn, his third wife. Gellhorn, who had come to Cuba to be with Hemingway, decided that she did not want to live in the small room he rented at the Hotel Ambos Mundos. She found the property for which Hemingway ...
[3] [4] [5] In 1940, his parents divorced, after which his father married Martha Gellhorn. After their marriage, they moved to Cuba where Patrick visited often. [6] At the beginning of World War II, Patrick helped crew his father's boat, the Pilar, on improvised missions to hunt for German U-boats operating in the Gulf of Mexico. [6]