Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn

Martha Ellis Gellhorn (November 8, 1908 – February 15, 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century.She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career. Gellhorn was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945. She died in 1998 in an apparent suicide at the age of 89, ill and almost completely blind. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martha Gellhorn has received more than 2,008,424 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Martha Gellhorn is the 1,179th most popular writer (up from 1,285th in 2019), the 1,372nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,457th in 2019) and the 141st most popular American Writer.

Martha Gellhorn was a journalist who reported on the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Vietnam War. She is most famous for her work in the Spanish Civil War, where she was one of the few female journalists to report on the war.