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MARTHA GELLHORN- A FEARLESS LEADY

Martha Gellhorn was a fearless lady of her era. She was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist. More than this she got distinguished for war correspondent who covered every war that occurred across the globe over a period extending nearly 60 years. She virtually reported every major world conflict in her 60 years’ career. She generally does not believe in politicians and always gave her support to common people who is in trouble. As a writer, her invented work was considered by lucid prose. Some of her famous novels like ‘A Stricken Field’ (1939), ‘The Lowest Trees Have Tops’ (1967). She was get married to an American novelist ‘Ernest Hemingway as his third wife. As she was independent, she refused to become a “footnote” in the life of bestseller writer. She was fighting a battle in the last days of her life & that was very painful. She was unwell and almost completely lost her eyesight at the age of 89. She doesn’t want to any look that has sympathy so she committed suicide in 1998. Childhood & Early Life- She was born as third girl child after two boy children of Edna and George Gellhorn in 1908 in St. Louis. She completed her studies at John Burroughs school in St. Louis and later join Bryn Mawr, in 1926. To follow the career in journalism she soon left her graduation course. Her first article gets published in The New Republic. She went to France for two years to become a foreign correspondent, where she worked at the United Press bureau in Paris. With this, she gets herself aligned with pacifist movement to wrote a book about her own experience in a novel that is ‘What Mad Pursuit’ (1934). CAREER: In the year of 1934, Martha comes back to the USA and took the position with Federal Emergency Relief Administration in Washington. At the age of 25, She was the youngest reporter in the team of 16 and working on the mission of the effects of Great Depression in textile areas of the Carolinas and New England. Later she worked with Dorothea Lange, a photographer to document the hungry and homeless people’s lives. Their reports became part of the official government files for the great Depression. After this, they started to investigate those topics that were can’t be open to women of the 1930s eras which made Martha, major contributors of American History. Martha met Earnest Hemingway in the year of 1936 in Florida. Together, they traveled to Spain to report the Spanish Civil War. At that time, she was employed by Collier's Weekly. With Hemingway, she covered Russia’s war against Finland in 1939, trekked across China. She covered Vietnam, Nicaraguan contras, the Arab-Israeli conflict. Ms. Gellhorn's war writer was collected in The Face of War in 1959. Her peacetime reporting was collected in The View from the Ground in 1988. Among her novels were A Stricken Field (1940) Personal Life: Martha’s first affair was with French economist Bertrand de Jouvenel at the age of 22. It began in 1930 and lasted till 1934. She met Ernest Hemingway in 1936. They were get married in 1940. Martha became Hemingway’s third wife. She met Ernest Hemingway in 1936 in Florida and four years later they were married. She became Hemingway’s third wife. Though she doesn’t like the fame of Hemingway’s third wife. As a condition for granting interviews, she was known to insist that Hemingway's name not be mentioned While she married to Hemingway, Gellhorn also had affair with U.S. military parachutists Major General James M. Gavin. Gavin was the youngest divisional commander in the U.S. army in the second war. In the year 1949, she adopted a boy, Sandy. She adopted a child called Sandy in 1949. However, she was not maternal by nature, she left sandy in the care of relatives for a long time About her physical relation life, she wrote something in 1972: If I practiced sex out of conviction, Then that was one thing’ but enjoy it. I accompanied men in the extrovert part of life. In sex life all I got was a pleasure of being wanted, I suppose, and the tenderness that a man gives when he is satisfied. I was the worst bed partner in five continents About the relationship with Hemingway, she said: "I offered sex only after all my explanations get failed and with the hope that it would be over quickly." Death: Near the end of her life, she was nearly blind and suffering from ovarian cancer which got spread to her liver. On 15 February 1958, she committed suicide at the age of 89. She makes that day last day of her life by swallowing a cyanide capsule. Major Works that makes their impact on the world: •	As a leading war writer, she authored several articles such as 'The Face of War' (1959) an assortment of wartime writing. •	'The View from the Ground' (1988) an assortment of peacetime essays. •	She also authored 'Vietnam: A New Kind of War' (1966). •	Her journeys, including a voyage with Hemingway, are described in 'Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir' (1978).