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Article: Do you know who this woman is? Literary and journalistic luminaries in St. Louis--like Martha Gellhorn--are ignored in favor of dogs, butterflies and bowlers.
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- St. Louis Journalism Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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Arguably, the best-known female war correspondent of the 20th century came from an old St. Louis family. In fact, Martha Gellhorn continued to visit her mother in St. Louis well into the 1970s and had other ties to our region. Yet, when Gellhorn died in 1998, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran only a brief obituary. None of the local television stations even mentioned her passing. It was as if this famed novelist, early feminist, fiery journalist and wife of Ernest Hemingway had never even lived among us.
Or take the first Joseph Pulitzer. In the decades after the Civil War, he more or less invented the modern newspaper and changed the face of American culture. He ...