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Article: 'Astride the sexes': Martha Gellhorn's letters drape shadows on a life that transcended the woman and her times.(Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn)(Book review)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
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- July 1, 2006
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SELECTED LETTERS OF MARTHA GELLHORN Edited by Caroline Moorehead. Henry Holt. 544 pp. $32.50
"I cannot afford to die; I would so hate to be exposed in all my follies and failings and I know damn well it will happen when I am six feet under." Martha Gellhorn was right about that. In 2004--a mere six years after she voluntarily threw in the towel, aged eighty-nine--Martha Gellhorn: A Life appeared. This perceptive work gave Gellhorn her due as the first female war reporter as well as a trailblazer for a new kind of journalism, focused on how headline events were affecting people's lives--"view from the ground," as she called it, a perspective that has become ...