Martha Gellhorn

8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998

Martha Gellhorn was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of a suffragette and a gynecologist. In 1926 she graduated from John Burroughs School and then attended Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia. In 1927, she left before graduating to pursue a career as a journalist. In 1930 she went to France for two years where she worked as a foreign correspondent for the United Press. While in Europe, she became active in the pacifist movement, which she wrote about in her first book, What Mad Pursuit (1934). Upon returning to the U.S., she worked as an investigator for the Federal Emergency Reli

• The face of war
• The view from the ground
• Travels with Myself and Another
• Cinco viajes al infierno
• Novellas
• The weather in Africa
• The weather in Africa
• Wine of astonishment
• What mad pursuit
• A stricken field
• His own man
• Liana