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Overview

The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn casts "a vivid spotlight on one of the most undercelebrated women of the 20th century" (Entertainment Weekly)

Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international conflict between the Spanish Civil War and the end of the cold war; her wartime dispatches rank among the best of the century. From her birth in St. Louis in 1908 to her death in London in 1998, the tall, glamorous blonde passed through Africa, Cuba, Panama, and most of the great cities of Europe. She made friends easily-among them Eleanor Roosevelt, Leonard Bernstein, and H. G. Wells-but happiness often eluded her despite her professional success: both of her marriages ended badly, the first, to Ernest Hemingway, dramatically and publicly so.

Drawn from extensive interviews and exclusive access to Gellhorn's papers and correspondence, this seminal biography spans half the globe and almost an entire century to offer an exhilarating, intimate portrait of one of the defining women of our times.

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The New York Times
Moorehead, who has written biographies of Freya Stark and Bertrand Russell among others, tells this sad story with historical command and psychological insight. — Brenda Maddox
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From her early days as a correspondent in the Spanish Civil War to her coverage, at the age of eighty-five, of murdered Brazilian street children, Martha Gellhorn was a defender of the underdog. Scornful of “all that objectivity shit” and intemperate in her judgments—friends were exiled, lovers dismissed—Gellhorn was driven to her itinerant existence by a terror of boredom. She was tall, blond, and legendarily tough; her marriage to Hemingway was celebrated with a dinner of roast moose. At the age of thirty-one, she travelled to Finland to await the Russian invasion; at forty-one, she adopted a child who had been abandoned in postwar Italy; in her fifties, she reported on the Vietnam War. Throughout, she remained a solitary being. “I only loved the world of men,” she wrote to a friend, “not the world of men-and-women.”

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780805076967
  • Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 9/1/2004
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 500
  • Sales rank: 271,350
  • Product dimensions: 1.11 (w) x 5.50 (h) x 8.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Caroline Moorehead is a distinguished biographer, book reviewer, and journalist. Gellhorn was nominated for the Whitbread Award for Biography and named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly and the San Francisco Chronicle. Moorehead will edit a collection of Gellhorn's letters and is also writing a book about the international refugee crisis, both for Henry Holt. She lives in London.

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New York with Hemingway was not what she expected. In Key West there had been time for long flirtatious meetings, time to talk seductively about writing and political commitments. In New York they were always in a crowd, everyone drinking, rushing in and out, answering the telephone, going to the Stork Club and Twenty One. Martha was frantic herself. She needed papers for Spain, and with some difficulty persuaded her friend Kyle Crichton at Collier's magazine to give her, not exactly a job, but a letter identifying her as their special correspondent. Martha also needed money for her boat ticket to Europe. Vogue obligingly commissioned her to write an article on "Beauty Problems of the Middle-Aged Woman," which involved acting as a guinea pig for a new experimental skin treatment. (It ruined her skin, she told a friend years later, but it got her to Spain.)

There was nothing now to keep her. Before boarding her ship, she wrote to Mrs. Barnes, a family friend in St. Louis: "Me, I am going to Spain with the boys. I don't know who the boys are, but I am going with them."

Table of Contents

Preface 1
1 A Talking Childhood 11
2 In Search of a Hero 30
3 A Little Hungry for a Long Time 43
4 The Trees Don't Grow Tall Enough 72
5 To War with the Boys 102
6 Only Kind People Should Be Kind 129
7 Flint and Steel 155
8 The Last Toughness of Youth 182
9 An Honorable Profession 203
10 The Pale Empty Color of the Future 231
11 Nothing with Mirrors 264
12 The Habit of Living 291
13 The Capital of My Soul 320
14 Stones on the Heart 345
15 I Act, Therefore I Am 380
16 The Sin of Unhappiness 400
Sources and Select Bibliography 425
Acknowledgments 437
Books by Martha Gellhorn 441
Index 443
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