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* Moorehead, Caroline. Gellhorn: a Twentieth-Century Life.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Oct. 2003. 480p. illus. index. Holt. $27.50 (0-8050-6553-9). 070.
Martha Gellhorn (1908-98) was a writer of conscience, an intrepid world traveler, and a genuine free spirit. Tall, blond, elegant, and determined, she didn't hesitate to use her looks to gain access to the frontlines of the twentieth century's bloodiest conflicts, and her ensuing impassioned but precise reports blazed across the pages of preeminent magazines and newspapers. A St. Louis girl who quit college to turn herself into a journalist and then a novelist, she was driven by a voracious curiosity, a need for adventure, an unshakable belief in the redemptive nature of work, a loathing of burdensome personal relationships, and, most importantly, a commitment to ...
- Ernest Hemingway with his wife Martha Gellhorn, and sons. (PAR167280)
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Robert Capa R January 1, 1941 700+ words
...Magnum Photos 01-01-1941 Ernest Hemingway with his wife Martha Gellhorn, and sons. Keywords: Adult...Caucasian (race) White (race) Ernest Hemingway with his wife Martha Gellhorn, and sons. Ernest Hemingway with his wife Martha Gellhorn...
- Etats Unis. Idaho. Sun Valley. A son domicile. The writer Ernest HEMINGWAY with...
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Robert Capa R January 1, 1940 700+ words
...domicile. The writer Ernest HEMINGWAY with his wife Martha Gellhorn, at Sun Valley...domicile. The writer Ernest HEMINGWAY with his wife Martha Gellhorn, at Sun Valley...Sun Valley. 1940. Ernest HEMINGWAY, US writer. 1940...
- Gellhorn, Martha
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography January 1, 2007 700+ words
...legendary American novelist Ernest Hemingway. But Gellhorn, "a cocky, raspy-voiced...fiction remained unclear in Gellhorn's book of Depression...1936. Hemingway and War Gellhorn met Ernest Hemingway, whose writing she admired...
- THE ADVENTURES OF MARTHA GELLHORN LACK INCISIVE ANALYSIS.(Show)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) March 24, 1991 700+ words
...But ask who Martha Gellhorn is, and the answer is likely to be Ernest Hemingway's third wife. This...vitality of Nazism, but Gellhorn was appalled by Fascism...Vacationing in Florida, Gellhorn met Ernest Hemingway, who was heading for...
- 'Astride the sexes': Martha Gellhorn's letters drape shadows on a life that...
- Magazine article from: Columbia Journalism Review Fox, Lorna Scott July 1, 2006 700+ words
...as a writer and journalist, Gellhorn was repelled by celebrity culture...of the last century. We meet Gellhorn in 1930 as the breezy American...miserable later marriage to Ernest Hemingway, Gellhorn often resorted to baby talk...
- A problem marriage; Biography.(Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) October 4, 2003 700+ words
...of poverty spiked with Gellhorn's own personal sense of outrage. If Gellhorn became well known both...famous for being one of Ernest Hemingway's wives. References...Tolls" and dedicated it to Gellhorn, and finally to Europe...
- The style of Martha Gellhorn
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Alida Becker May 8, 1988 700+ words
...That's because in this book Gellhorn opts for "leaving the reader...England, there are stories of Gellhorn's first years as a reporter...single mention of her marriage to Ernest Hemingway.) Gellhorn's publisher has suggested...
- Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Antioch Review Oesch, D.J. June 22, 2004 700+ words
...revealing look at Martha Gellhorn begins with her early years in St. Louis. Gellhorn's parents, a Jewish...relationship with future husband Ernest Hemingway) to China, to Germany...to these places, and Gellhorn sometimes resorted to...
