Martha Gellhorn was one of the most extraordinary of all war correspondents, and her career tracked many of the flash points 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 she 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 ...
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Martha Gellhorn was one of the most extraordinary of all war correspondents, and her career tracked many of the flash points 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 she 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. She saw things in words, and liked to describe what she observed, heard and thought, writing with humour and self-deprecation, often full of fury about corrupt and evil governments. Malice, she would say, was not acceptable; hatred was. conversation was what she really enjoyed. Her letters were sharp and witty but very seldom social - she was easily bored and loathed public occasions. What she liked was friendship and love, in all their guises; what interested her was the inner life. Her letters have been selected and edited for publication by her biographer, Caroline Moorehead.
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