During the Depression, Gellhorn worked as an investigator for the Federal Relief Administration, as one of few women doing this kind of work. She had two other siblings Walter Gellhorn who was a law professor at Columbia University and Alfred Gellhorn who was an oncologist and became a dean of the UniversityOf Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She was of Jewish origin. 1. She was one of the first women ever to forge an international reputation as a war correspondent of the 20th century. Gellhorn met Ernest Hemingway in the mid-1930s, and they traveled together to cover th…

Her brother Walter became a noted law professor at Columbia University, and her younger brother Alfred was an oncologist and former dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Martha Gellhorn was born on November 8, 1908 in St. Louis, Missouri to Edna Fischel Gellhorn, a suffragist and George Gellhorn, a gynecologist. Martha Gellhorn was born on November 8, 1908, in St Louis, Missourito Edna Fischel Gellhorn and George Gellhorn.

She dropped out of Bryn Mawr college and began working as a crime reporter before embarking on a journey to Paris, where she worked for the United Press bureau as a foreign correspondent. 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. She then enrolled at th… Martha Gellhorn was educated at the John Burroughs School in St Louis where she graduated in 1926. Martha Ellis Gellhorn (November 8, 1908 – February 15, 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. The Golden Lane At age 8, Gellhorn MARTHA GELLHORN Martha Ellis Gellhorn was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist. 2. Her father was a German-borngynaecologistand his mother a suffragist. 3. Her father and maternal grandfather were Jewish, and her maternal grandmother came from a Protestant family. Gellhorn was born on November 8, 1908, in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Edna Fischel Gellhorn, a suffragist, and George Gellhorn, a German-born gynecologist.