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Martha Gellhorn

AKA Martha Ellis Gellhorn

Born: 8-Nov-1908
Birthplace: St. Louis, MO
Died: 15-Feb-1998
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: Suicide
Remains: Cremated (ashes scattered)

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Journalist, Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: War correspondent

Father: George Gellhorn (gynecologist)
Mother: Edna Fischell Gellhorn (suffragette, b. 18-Dec-1878, d. 24-Sep-1970)
Brother: Alfred
Brother: Walter
Brother: George Jr.
Boyfriend: Bertrand de Jouvenel (cohabited 1930-34)
Slept with: H. G. Wells (1935, speculative)
Boyfriend: Paul Willert (dated 1936)
Boyfriend: Allen Grover (dated 1936)
Husband: Ernest Hemingway (m. 20-Nov-1940, div. 21-Dec-1945)
Boyfriend: James M. Gavin (extramarital affair)
Boyfriend: William Walton (1947)
Son: Allesandro Gellhorn ("Sandy", adopted 1949)
Boyfriend: David Gurewitsch (1950)
Husband: Tom Matthews (editor-in-chief of Time , m. 1954, div. 1963)
Boyfriend: Laurance Rockefeller (millionaire entrepreneur)

    High School: John Burroughs School, St. Louis, MO
    University: Bryn Mawr College (dropped out 1929)

    Atlantic Monthly
    Collier's
    The New Republic
    Vogue
    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Abortion unproven (1934)
    Hysterectomy (1973)
    Vehicular Manslaughter (1974), no charges filed
    Raped Nyali, Kenya (c. 1989)
    German Ancestry Paternal
    Risk Factors: Smoking, Ovarian Cancer, Liver Cancer, Blindness


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