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Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998)

Forfatter af Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir

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Martha Gellhorn, one of America's most important war correspondents, was the author of thirteen books of fiction and nonfiction and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway. Her reporting career spanned several decades: she covered conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to World War II to Vietnam. Gellhorn vis mere died in 1998 at age eighty-nine vis mindre

Omfatter også følgende navne: M. Gellhorn, Martha Gelhorn, Martha Gellhorn

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Værker af Martha Gellhorn

The Face of War (1959) 372 eksemplarer
A Stricken Field (1940) 140 eksemplarer
Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn (2006) 124 eksemplarer
The View from the Ground (1988) 110 eksemplarer
Liana (1944) 78 eksemplarer
The Weather in Africa (1984) 77 eksemplarer
The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn (1993) 51 eksemplarer
Point of No Return (1948) 44 eksemplarer
The Honeyed Peace (1958) 31 eksemplarer
His own man (1961) 13 eksemplarer
Two by Two (1994) 10 eksemplarer
Pretty tales for tired people (1965) 10 eksemplarer
The Wine of Astonishment (1948) 6 eksemplarer

Associated Works

Med natten mod vest (1942) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver3,579 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Bidragyder — 1,552 eksemplarer
Reporting World War II Part One : American Journalism, 1938-1944 (1995) — Bidragyder — 437 eksemplarer
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1969, Volume 1 (1998) — Bidragyder — 323 eksemplarer
Bad Trips (1991) — Bidragyder — 232 eksemplarer
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Bidragyder — 214 eksemplarer
Granta 32: History (1990) — Bidragyder — 151 eksemplarer
Granta 23: Home (1988) — Bidragyder — 138 eksemplarer
Granta 20: In Trouble Again (1986) — Bidragyder — 131 eksemplarer
Granta 42: Krauts! (1992) — Bidragyder — 130 eksemplarer
The Granta Book of Reportage (Classics of Reportage) (1993) — Bidragyder — 93 eksemplarer
Granta 10: Travel Writing (1984) — Bidragyder — 88 eksemplarer
The Mammoth Book of True War Stories (1992) — Bidragyder — 87 eksemplarer
Granta 11: Greetings From Prague (1984) — Bidragyder — 60 eksemplarer
Great World War II Stories: 50th Anniversary Collection (1989) — Bidragyder — 29 eksemplarer
The Girls from Esquire (1952) — Bidragyder — 18 eksemplarer
Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections (2007) — Bidragyder — 12 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1952 (1952) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
The Best American Short Stories 1948 (1948) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1948 (1948) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Kritiken, Portraits, Glossen (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver1 eksemplar

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Kanonisk navn
Gellhorn, Martha
Juridisk navn
Gellhorn, Martha Ellis (birth)
Fødselsdato
1908-11-08
Dødsdag
1998-02-15
Køn
female
Nationalitet
USA
Fødested
St Louis, Missouri, USA
Dødssted
London, England, UK
Dødsårsag
suicide
Bopæl
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Paris, France
London, England, UK
Uddannelse
Bryn Mawr College
Erhverv
journalist
war correspondent
Investigator, FERA
novelist
memoirist
short story writer
Relationer
Hemingway, Ernest (husband|divorced)
Cowles, Virginia (co-author)
Jouvenel, Bertrand de (lover)
Pilger, John (friend)
Organisationer
The Atlantic Monthly
Collier's
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Kort biografi
Martha Gellhorn's parents were a physician and an advocate for women's right to vote. She attended a progressive private school her parents founded in St. Louis, then went to Bryn Mawr College, leaving in 1927 to write for The New Republic. She then got a job as a crime reporter in Albany, New York. In 1930, she went to Europe, paying for the boat trip by writing a brochure for the Holland American Line. In Paris, she met French writer Bertrand de Jouvenel, whom she may have married. She returned with him to St. Louis and then traveled the American Southwest as a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Her first novel, What Mad Pursuit (1934), attracted the attention of Harry Hopkins, a close advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who hired Gellhorn to travel the USA as a field investigator for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and write about the effects of the Great Depression. The resulting work, The Trouble I've Seen (1936), is now one of her most famous. Gellhorn met Ernest Hemingway, whose writing she admired, in Key West, Florida, in 1936. When he told her he was going to Spain to cover the Civil War there, she decided to go, too. She arrived in Madrid in 1937 on assignment for Collier's Weekly. The couple soon became lovers and married in 1940. She took Hemingway along with her to China to cover the Chinese Army's retreat from the Japanese invasion. During World War II, she covered the Soviet attack on Finland, the German Blitz attacks on London, and the Allied D-Day invasion of Europe. "She wrote passionately about the dreadful impact of war on the innocent," the Washington Post said in her obituary. She witnessed the Allied liberation of the concentration camp at Dachau, and her article became one of the most famous accounts of the discovery of the camps. After the war, Gellhorn divorced Hemingway and lived in several countries, from France and Italy to Cuba, Mexico, and Kenya, before settling in the UK. She covered the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, and the conflicts in Vietnam, Panama, and El Salvador. She also wrote more fiction, including The Honeyed Peace (1953) and Two by Two (1958). Her novellas were popular, and were published in collections including The Weather in Africa (1988) and The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn (1993). Her memoir Travels With Myself and Another, was published in 1978. In 1953 she married her third husband, T.S. Matthews, a former managing editor at Time Magazine. She gave birth to one son, George Alexander Gellhorn, whom she raised herself, and adopted a son from an Italian orphanage. She died by suicide at age 89. Her selected letters were published posthumously in 2006.

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Most of the pieces in this collection were originally published in Colliers, The Guardian, and other publications for whom Gellhorn was a war correspondent. These columns make the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Vietnam War immediate and personal. Gellhorn’s writing grew more political over time. Not surprisingly, the Vietnam War appeared to mark a turning point in her war coverage.

The World War II columns resonated most with me, particularly the column on Dachau (which I’ve visited) and the Nuremberg Trials. I felt like I was missing some context for the columns on the wars in Central America. Gellhorn’s perspective on the Six Day War is the most intriguing part of this collection. Gellhorn’s view of Israel was shaped by her eyewitness experience of the Holocaust at Dachau and other places in Europe.… (mere)
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cbl_tn | 4 andre anmeldelser | Jan 1, 2023 |
Reason Read: AAC. Martha Gellhorn was a novelist, journalist, and travel writer. 1934 to 1998
This book is a summary of all the wars that she had visited and wrote about in her lifetime. Ms Gellhorn was a pacifist and she writes about the people who live their lives in the turmoil of war. She writes about the lies that the government tells people to justify the wars and she reveals the propaganda that even Americans are subjected to to justify war. I felt like this writing was factual and trustworthy and without bias except for the author's pacifism. She is a new to me author. She is an interesting person who lived an interesting life.… (mere)
 
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Kristelh | 4 andre anmeldelser | Dec 20, 2022 |
Martha Gellhorn, a well-known journalist and war correspondent, would not necessarily want you to identify as Ernest Hemingway's third wife, but she was. Martha Gellhorn, would like to be known as a person who didn't let the details get in her way, and was a very care-free traveler, and in some instances she was.

Her writing is clear, humorous and a joy to read. She easily depicts Africa as a lost continent, incapable of ruling themselves because the populations who lived there all their lives are ignorant. The Massi tribe is depicted as so very ugly that one has a difficult time looking at them. Made uglier by the long, deep groves of scars decorating their faces, she thinks they plead ignorance so they do not have to work.

The book begins with her journey to China, the weather is depicted as God awful hot, and the inhabitants were ignorant and small minded. Like the Soviet Union, she finds the government oppressive and crooked.

When I told a friend that she has a strong distaste for the ugly Massi tribe, my friend overreacted and said she would never read her books, and for that matter, I shouldn't either. When I tried to explain that books written in another time frame than current, are best read with an open mind, and the reader must take that into their view of what appears her sarcasm, prejudice, and loftier than thou perceptions, I was met with silence.

I very much liked this book. She writes with just enough description and feeling, that I was amazed at her ability to overcome many troublesome events.
… (mere)
 
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Whisper1 | 7 andre anmeldelser | May 6, 2022 |
Nice collection of sweet and interesting short stories.
 
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ISBN
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