Letters of Martha Gellhorn
About this book
"Martha Gellhorn was one of the most extraordinary of all war correspondents, and her career tracked many of the flashpoints of the twentieth century: the Depression in the American south in the 1930s; the Spanish Civil War; the Second World War in Europe; the D-Day landings and the Vietnam War. She lived with Ernest Hemingway on and off for eight years, and was married to him for four; and she numbered among her close friends Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the President of the United States; the writers H. G. Wells and Sybille Bedford; the photographer Robert Capa and the composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein." "Martha never kept a 'writer's compost heap' of diaries, but every day she wrote letters - to her mother, her sons, her lovers and friends - and these letters, read together, provide an immediate and intimate portrait of a remarkable life. Her letters have been selected and edited for publication by her biographer, Caroline Moorehead."--BOOK JACKET.
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CorrespondenceJournalistsWar correspondentsWomen journalistsWomen war correspondentsAuthors, americanAuthors, correspondenceJournalists, correspondenceJournalists, united statesAmerican Authors