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Martha Gellhorn

1908 - 1998

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Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career. She was the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, from 1940 to 1945. She died in 1998 by apparent suicide at the age of 89, ill and almost completely blind. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martha Gellhorn is the 1,346th most popular writer (down from 1,211th in 2019), the 1,957th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,416th in 2019) and the 156th most popular American Writer.

Martha Gellhorn was a journalist who reported on the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Vietnam War. She is most famous for her work in the Spanish Civil War, where she was one of the few female journalists to report on the war.

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Among writers, Martha Gellhorn ranks 1,346 out of 7,302. Before her are Nora Roberts, Joseph Mohr, Clodia Pulchra, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Giovanni Verga, and Imru' al-Qais. After her are Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Ken Robinson, Yan Fu, Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, Paul Scarron, and Fredric Brown.

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Among people born in 1908, Martha Gellhorn ranks 70. Before her are Victor Ambartsumian, Masaru Ibuka, Saizo Saito, Maria Prymachenko, Robert Merle, and Bjarni Benediktsson. After her are Percy Williams, Yousuf Karsh, Don Ameche, André Martinet, Alain Cuny, and Lionel Stander. Among people deceased in 1998, Martha Gellhorn ranks 54. Before her are Lloyd Bridges, David McClelland, Roddy McDowall, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Nelson Goodman, and Galina Ulanova. After her are Fritz Honka, Albert Gore Sr., Cozy Powell, Imi Lichtenfeld, Sonny Bono, and Marie-Louise Meilleur.

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Among people born in United States, Martha Gellhorn ranks 1,957 out of 20,380. Before her are Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924), Robert B. Laughlin (1950), Grover Washington Jr. (1943), Ted Danson (1947), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), and William Westmoreland (1914). After her are James Foley (1953), Jim Caviezel (1968), Susan Hayward (1917), Ben E. King (1938), James Brolin (1940), and Karen Carpenter (1950).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Martha Gellhorn ranks 156. Before her are Anthony Bourdain (1956), Natalie Clifford Barney (1876), Samuel R. Delany (1942), Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923), Diana Gabaldon (1952), and Nora Roberts (1950). After her are Fredric Brown (1906), Norman Mailer (1923), Harry Harrison (1925), James Patterson (1947), Erskine Caldwell (1903), and Clive Cussler (1931).

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