Martha Gellhorn spent seven decades railing against poverty, ignorance, corruption, and violence, on behalf of democracy.
Read MoreJust how great must a woman’s achievements be before her story can stand clear of romantic lies?
Read MoreMartha Gellhorn suffered every major diagnostic criterion for trauma.
Read MoreDiscrimination often fuels creativity in the marginal spaces left to those excluded, so Martha Gellhorn became something different from a war correspondent: she became a writer at war, and one of a kind.
Read MoreWhile we might find Gellhorn’s resistance to mundane tasks feminist or classist, it’s also darker and more poignant. It’s one cost of her long service to journalism and democracy.
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