caption death_date death_place birth_name birth_place imagesize nationality birth_date period spouse genre image article_title name occupation
gellhorn chongqing , china , 1941 and ernest hemingway with general yu hanmou , 15 february 1998 london , england martha ellis gellhorn st. louis , missouri , us 300px american 8 november 1908 1934 -- 1989 ernest t. s. matthews -lrb- 1954 -- 1963 ; divorced -rrb- hemingway -lrb- 1940 -- 1945 ; divorced -rrb- war , travel gellhorn hemingway 1941.jpg martha gellhorn
 martha gellhorn author , war correspondent
martha gellhorn

martha ellis gellhorn -lrb- november 8 , 1908 -- february 15 , 1998 -rrb- was an american novelist , travel writer , and journalist , who is now considered one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century .
she reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career .
gellhorn was also the third wife of american novelist ernest hemingway , from 1940 to 1945 .
at the age of 89 , ill and almost completely blind , she died in 1998 of an apparent suicide .
the martha gellhorn prize for journalism is named after her .
