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Life of war, writing and Hemingway: Martha Gellhorn is explored in biography.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: John Gallagher
``Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life'' by Caroline Moorehead; Holt ($27.50)
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Martha Gellhorn deserves to be remembered for a lot more than being the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.
War correspondent, novelist and lifelong campaigner for the underdog, Gellhorn covered conflicts from the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and to Vietnam in the '60s. She wasn't the first or the only women to cover a war, but she was one of the best journalists of either sex, and her fury over injustice never flagged.
Now a biography by London-based writer Caroline Moorehead brings the story of Gellhorn's life and career to ...
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