WRITER

Martha Gellhorn

1908 - 1998

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martha Gellhorn has received more than 2,611,050 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Martha Gellhorn is the 1,212th most popular writer (down from 978th in 2019), the 1,416th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,159th in 2019) and the 134th 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.

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  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.90

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Notable Works

Liana
1944
The face of war
1959
The weather in Africa
1978
The view from the ground
1988
The honeyed peace
1953
Travels with Myself and Another
Voyages and travels
Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her "best horror journeys". She bumps through rain-sodden, war-torn China to meet Chiang Kai-Shek, floats listlessly in search of u-boats in the wartime Caribbean and visits a dissident writer in the Soviet Union against her better judgement. Written with the eye of a novelist and an ironic black humour, what makes these tales irresistible are Gellhorn's explosive and often surprising reactions. Indignant, but never righteous and not always right, through the crucible of hell on earth emerges a woman who makes you laugh with her at life, while thanking God that you are not with her.
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Page views of Martha Gellhorns by language

Over the past year Martha Gellhorn has had the most page views in the with 251,672 views, followed by Spanish (32,030), and German (23,930). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (102.93%), West Frisian (72.33%), and Simple English (69.68%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Martha Gellhorn ranks 1,212 out of 7,302. Before her are Odoric of Pordenone, Ida Tarbell, Theodor Storm, Léo Taxil, Daniil Kharms, and Alexander Ostrovsky. After her are Johann Peter Eckermann, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Albert Barillé, Johannes Valentinus Andreae, and Eiji Yoshikawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Martha Gellhorn ranks 61. Before her are Rex Harrison, Stéphane Grappelli, Masaru Ibuka, Mercè Rodoreda, Amintore Fanfani, and Valentin Glushko. After her are Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Carlos Arias Navarro, Willard Van Orman Quine, Lionel Stander, Henri, Count of Paris, and Don Ameche. Among people deceased in 1998, Martha Gellhorn ranks 37. Before her are Kenichi Fukui, Galina Ulanova, Bob Kane, Derek Barton, Nelson Goodman, and Florence Griffith Joyner. After her are Conrad Schumann, Alan J. Pakula, Alan Hodgkin, Imi Lichtenfeld, Adem Jashari, and David McClelland.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martha Gellhorn ranks 1,416 out of 20,380. Before her are Charles G. Dawes (1865), Ida Tarbell (1857), David Schwimmer (1966), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), John Cena (1977), and Florence Griffith Joyner (1959). After her are Sondra Locke (1944), Douglas McGregor (1906), Tony Burton (1937), Ellery Harding Clark (1874), Joseph Murray (1919), and Aaron Burr (1756).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Martha Gellhorn ranks 134. Before her are Anne Rice (1941), E. Howard Hunt (1918), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), Solomon Northup (1808), Dan Simmons (1948), and Ida Tarbell (1857). After her are Harry Harrison (1925), James Patterson (1947), Irving Stone (1903), Clive Cussler (1931), Erskine Caldwell (1903), and Robert Sheckley (1928).

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