Martha Gellhorn

Martha Ellis Gellhorn and Ernest Miller Hemingway were married on this day in 1940 in Spain.

A journalist, war correspondent, short story writer and novelist, Martha and Ernest started an affair that ended Ernest and Pauline's marriage. Martha's war correspondent career includud the Spanish Civil War (where she spent time with Ernest ) and went through the US Invasion of Panama.

"One of the great war correspondents of the century, brave, fierce and wholly committed to the truth of the situation." - London Daily Telegraph

Martha was born in St. Louis 8 November 1908 and attended Bryn Mawr. She wrote articles for New Republic, served the United Press Bureau in Paris and reported on the Spanish Civil War for Colliers Weekly.

"All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people." - Martha Gellhorn

An accomplished novelist, Martha finished The Lowest Trees have Tops in 1967, an account of her life with Ernest. Their marriage lasted five years when Martha, the only wife to do so, divorced Ernest.