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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.
Martha Gellhorn: 1908 1998 89 Writer Cyanide poisoning: Suicide [253] Lowell George: 1945 1979 34 Musician Unspecified Accidental [254] [255] Talitha Getty: 1940 1971 30 Actress Heroin Unknown [256] Harold Gimblett: 1914 1978 63 Cricketer Unspecified Unknown [257] Michèle Girardon: 1938 1975 36 Actress Sleeping pills Suicide [258] Billy Glide ...
Matthews was married three times, to: Juliana Stevens Cuyler, Martha Gellhorn, and Pamela Firth Peniakoff. [1] [4] He married Gellhorn in 1954 and lived with her in London; they divorced in 1963. [8] He had four sons: Thomas S. Matthews Jr., John P. C. Matthews, Paul C. Matthews, and W. Alexander P. Matthews. [2] [4]
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 ...
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 ]
October 25 – Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (died 2004) November 8 – Zhou Yang, Chinese literary theorist (died 1989) November 8 – Martha Gellhorn, American journalist (suicide 1998) [25] November 9 – Lucian Boz, Romanian and Australian literary critic (died 2003) November 20 – Alistair Cooke, English-born American journalist (died 2004 ...
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 ]