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Selected letters of Martha Gellhorn, edited by Caroline Moorehead

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Selected letters of Martha Gellhorn

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edited by Caroline Moorehead

Martha Gellhorns heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international conflict between the Spanish Civil War and the end of the Cold War. While Gellhorns wartime dispatches rank among the best of the century, her personal letters are their equal: as vivid and fascinating as anything she ever published. Gellhorns correspondence from 1930 to 1996c̮hronicling friendships with figures as diverse as Eleanor Roosevelt, Leonard Bernstein, and H. G. Wells, as well as her tempestuous marriage to Ernest Hemingwayp̮aint a vivid picture of the twentieth century as she lived it. Caroline Moorehead, who was granted exclusive access to the letters, has expertly edited this fascinating volume, providing prefatory and interstitial material that contextualizes Gellhorns correspondence within the arc of her entire life. The letters introduce us to the woman behind the correspondenta̮ writer of wit, charm, and vulnerability. The result is an exhilarating, intimate portrait of one of the most accomplished women of modern times

Setting forth, 1908-1936 -- Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1942 -- An honorable profession, 1942-1945 -- Washington, Cuernavaca, and Sandy, 1945-1954 -- Tom Matthews, 1954-1963 -- Africa and Vietnam, 1963-1974 -- A life in friendship, 1974-1998