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Martha Gellhorn Martha Ellis Gellhorn was an American journalist and novelist who is the first female war correspondents.  Martha Ellis Gellhorn (Nov 8, 1908 – Feb 15, 1998) was an American travel writer, novelist and journalist, who is also considered as the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. Born in 1908 in St. Louis, Missouri, she began her writing career as a crime writer in 1920s. She reported on almost every major world struggle and conflict that took place during her 60-year of career. In 1930, to become a foreign correspondent she went to France for 2 years, where she started her career as Journalist in Paris at the United Press bureau. While in Europe, she became lively in the pacifist movement, writing about her experiences in What Mad Pursuit (her book published in 1934). Her storied life as f emale war correspondents. After meeting Ernest Hemingway, American novelist in late 1936, and she travelled with him to cover the Spanish Civil War in M