Gellhorn traveled to El Salvador to cover the brutal war in the 1980s between the U.S.-backed military and Marxist rebels. She was of Jewish origin. Martha Gellhorn was born on November 8, 1908 in St. Louis, Missouri to Edna Fischel Gellhorn, a suffragist and George Gellhorn, a gynecologist. Martha Ellis Gellhorn, who as one of the first female war correspondents covered a dozen major conflicts in a writing career spanning more than six decades, died on Sunday at … Following publication of the original biography, Gellhorn wrote 25 pages of notes on Rollyson's errors. He explains why to Cassandra Jardine But underneath her glamorous exterior, her letters reveal a woman of awe-inspiring rage.

In later life Gellhorn became critical of the institution of marriage. Martha Gellhorn was a gorgeous, brilliant foreign correspondent once married to Hemingway. Gellhorn met Ernest Hemingway in the mid-1930s, and they traveled together to cover the Spanish Civil War. The war for Martha's memory Sandy Matthews, the writer Martha Gellhorn's stepson and executor, is a jealous protector of her reputation. Only two survive, which her adopted son, Sandy, saved from the flames. In 1954, Martha married Tom Matthews which led to relative period of inactivity and they divorced in the late 1960s. She gave birth to one son, George Alexander Gellhorn, whom she raised herself, and she adopted a son, Sandy Matthews. BIOGRAPHY: Martha Gellhorn – War Correspondent ... Sandy, from an orphanage in Italy. Gellhorn’s own mail to Hemingway, until they divorced, is steeped in love and features a … Her brothers, Walter Gellhorn and Alfred Gellhorn were also well-known personalities; Walter was a renowned law professor at Columbia University and Alfred was an oncologist.