Profile
Martha Gellhorn
Journalist
Female
Born
Nov 8, 1908
Hometown
St. Louis, Missouri
Died
Feb 15, 1998
Death Place
London
Nationality
American
Other Names
Martha Ellis Gell...
Martha Ellis Gellhorn was a German American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, considered by The London Daily Telegraph, among others, to be one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. She reported on virtually every major world… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1908
Birth
Born on November 8, 1908.
TEENAGE
1926
17 Years Old
Gellhorn graduated in 1926 from John Burroughs School in St. Louis and enrolled in Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia.
1927
18 Years Old
In 1927, she left before graduating to pursue a career as a journalist.
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TWENTIES
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.
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1936
27 Years Old
Gellhorn first met Hemingway during a 1936 Christmas family trip to Key West.
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1938
29 Years Old
Later, from Germany, she reported on the rise of Adolf Hitler and in 1938 was in Czechoslovakia.
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THIRTIES
She and Hemingway lived together off and on for four years, before marrying in December, 1940 (Hemingway also lived with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, until 1939).
1943
34 Years Old
Increasingly resentful of Gellhorn's long absences during her reporting assignments, Hemingway wrote her when she left their Finca Vigía estate near Havana in 1943, to cover the Italian Front: "Are you a war correspondent, or wife in my bed?" Hemingway himself, however, would later go to the front just before the Normandy landings, and Gellhorn would soon follow, with Hemingway trying to block her travel. When she arrived by means of a dangerous ocean voyage in war-torn London, she told him she had had enough. After four contentious years of marriage, they divorced in 1945.
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FORTIES
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She was a frequent visitor to Israel after 1949, and in the 1960s considered moving to Israel.
1954
45 Years Old
In 1954 she married the former managing editor of Time Magazine, Tom Matthews, and settled down in London, which was to be her home for the rest of her life, although she and Matthews were divorced in 1963.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1972
63 Years Old
In 1972 she wrote:
1998
89 Years Old
Gellhorn died in London in 1998, aged 89, committing suicide by drug overdose after a long battle with cancer and near total blindness.
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