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American war correspondent (–)

Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November – 15 February )^[1] was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th&#;century.^[2][3] She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her year career.

She was the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from to

She died in by apparent suicide at the age of 89, ill and almost completely blind.^[4]

The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism is named after her.

Early life

Gellhorn was born on 8 November , in St. Louis, Missouri, to Edna Fischel Gellhorn, a suffragist, and George Gellhorn, a German-born gynecologist.^[5][6] Her father and maternal grandfather were Jewish, and her maternal grandmother came from a Protestant family.^[5] Her brother Walter became a noted law professor at Columbia University,^[7] a