Biography ----Martha Gellhorn

By bhattacharyasuprity......
Preface
Some of the events in our world that Our mind moved . Many stars are
born in this world or the next day will be when we do not know about
them, after a few days we can learn about them by the popular action

Martha Gellhorn was like this ,She was born in 1908 in St.
Louis, Missouri ..She began her writing career as a crime writer early
in the 1920 .She was journalist , and in beginning She started as a war
reporter and She met Ernest Hemingway in late 1936 .She cover the
Spanish Civil War. Gellhorn went on to cover every war that broke out
during her lifetime, until the mid-1990s when her health began to give
out. Stricken with cancer, She committed suicide in 1998 .

Early life.
Gellhorn was born in ST. Louis , Missouri, (ST. Louis is a
city and port ofU.S. state of Missouri) on November 8, 1908, the
daughter of Edna Fischel Gellhorn and Gynaecologist Dr.
George Gellhorn . Her Father and Maternal Grandfather were
Jewish origin and Maternal Grandmother were Protestant
family . Her brother , Walter Gellhorn was law professor
at COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY . Her younger brother, Alfred
Gellhorn, was an Oncologist and former dean of University of
Perelman School of Medicine.

Gellhorn schooling was in John_Burroughs School in St.

Louis, and in Graduated in 1926 from Bryn Mawr College in
Philadelphia. She left before graduating to pursue a career as a
Journalist in 1927. The New Republic is a Liberal American
magazine of commentary on politics and the arts published since
1914, with major influence on American political and cultural
thinking.
Gellhorn travel around the United States to return to the
country reports on the impact of depression. Depression was
influenced by the people She reports her observations and how
to use communication skills in Gastonia North Carolina, where She
went on. Later, She was hungry and homeless life of a
photographer Dorothea Lange working document .

After the Great Depression, the report becomes part of the

official government files. They are a collection of stories on the
basis of its findings, a summary of the issues that I've seen in
American history Gellhorn the 1930s, women were generally not
open to the subject, as well as Lange, were the main contributors
to the investigation

In this Magazine Gellhorns first Article published in

1930 .. Then She went to France for two years where she
worked in United Press Bureau in Paris .In Europe she activated
in Pacific Movement and writing about her experience in the
book What Mad Pursuit (1934) .After she was hired by Harry
Lloyd Hopkins (August 17, 1890 January 29, 1946). She
introduced with Harry Lloyd Hopkins by the First Lady Eleanor
Roosevelt ,First Lady of the United States. She worked in as a
 field investigator for the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration (FERA) , as the new name given by the Roosevelt
Administration to the Emergency Relief Administration (ERA)
which President Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874
October 20, 1964).had created by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(January 30, 1882 April 12, 1945) in 1932

Marriage to Hemingway
In1936 Gellhorn first met Hemingway , She and Hemingway
lived together on for four years, before marrying in December 1940 .
The pair celebrated Christmas of 1937 together . In that time she
covered Spanish Civil War fought from 1936 to 1939 between the
Republicans who were loyal to the democratic . She reported on the rise
of Adolf Hitler . She later reported the war from Finland , Hong Kong
,Burma ,Singapore ,and England .She was the only woman to land at
Normandy to "D-Day" ,S he was also among the first journalists to report
from Dachau concentration camp . Gellharna continued in the field of
battle information collected the news ,for this reson Hemingway was
not able to accept the absence of his life Gellhorn .He wrote her "Are
you a war correspondent, or wife in my bed?"For this problematical
and contentious situation they divorced in 1945 .. After her divorce,
Laurance Spelman Rockefeller came in her life . After that i n 1954, She
married the former managing editor of Time Magazine Thomas
Stanley Matthews (January 16, 1901 January 4, 1991) . In 1949,
Gellhorn adopted a boy, Sandy, from an Italian orphanage. Although
Gellhorn was briefly a devoted mother, she was not by nature maternal.
She eventually left Sandy in the care of relatives in Engliwod , NewJersy
. Sandy endured many absences from Gellhorn during her travels, and
eventually attended boarding school . He grew to disappoint her, and
their relationship became embittered

Career.
After the war, Gellhorn worked for the The Atlantic Monthly , covering
Vietnam War and the Arab-Israel conflicts in the 1960s-70s. But
continued working following decade and covering the civil war in Central
America began to slow down in her physically and although she
covering US invasion of Panama in 1989 . She finally retired from
journalism as the 1990s began. An operation for cataracts was
unsuccessful and left her with permanently. Although she had managed
One last over seas trip to Brazil in 1995 to report on poverty in that
country, which was published in the literary journal Granta . Gellhorn
published numerous books, including a collection of articles on war, The
Face of War (1959); The Lowest Trees Have Tops (1967) Travels With
Myself and Another (1978) and a collection of her peacetime
journalism, The View From the Ground(1988).

Awards & Achievements

A war correspondent is a Journalist who covers stories first hand

from a war john named for the renowned Martha Gellhorn Prize for
Journalism, was established in 1999 by the Martha Gellhorn Trust. On
October 5.2007 ,the United States Postal servce that it would honour
five Journalist with first class rate postage stamp to be issued on April
22, 2008 Martha Gellhorn , John Hersey,George Polk ,Ruben Salazar &
Eric Sevareid Postmaster .