Person    | Female  Born 8/11/1908  Died 15/2/1998

Martha Gellhorn

Categories: Journalism / Publishing

Countries: USA

American novelist, travel writer, and journalist, considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. Gellhorn reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career. She was also the third wife of American novelist Ernest Hemingway, 1940-5. Died by suicide in her London apartment ill with cancer and almost completely blind. The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism is named after her.

The Guardian report of the plaque unveiling is useful: On D-day in 1944, Gellhorn was the only woman to land at Normandy. She was also one of the first journalists to report from Dachau concentration camp after it was liberated by US troops on 29 April 1945. The plaque is outside the flat where Martha Gellhorn lived for the final 28 years of her life.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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