One hard-boiled lady:
Martha Gellhorn, Nov. 8, 1908 - 1998 - war correspondent and novelist, famous perhaps chiefly for being Hemingway’s third wife in the 1940s. She, of course, resented reflected fame and notoriety and preferred to be judged on her own merits as a writer, which were considerable…
She reported on the Spanish Civil War, World War II (where Hemingway had appropriated her press credentials, so that she had to sneak around, talking only to non-ranking soldiers), the Vietnam War, The Six-Day War in 1967 and several other minor conflicts…
Gellhorn was a leftist in terms of politics, but she sympathised with the state of Israel (after witnessing the liberation of Dachau in 1945). Both her parents were secular half-Jews, and Gellhorn was an atheist…
Photo: Martha Gellhorn with Ernest Hemingway on their honeymoon in Honolulu in 1940.
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