Tag: Martha Gellhorn

  • Martha Gellhorn: The War Correspondent Who Refused to Be a Footnote

    Martha Gellhorn: The War Correspondent Who Refused to Be a Footnote

    Martha Gellhorn never liked being remembered as Ernest Hemingway’s wife. She was, as she often reminded anyone who asked, “a writer before I met him, and a writer after I left him.” Indeed, over the course of nearly six decades, Gellhorn became one of the 20th century’s most formidable war correspondents—a woman who witnessed the…