Book description
Martha Gelhorn's journalism tracks many of the flashpoints of the
twentieth century; as a young woman she witnessed the suffering of the
American Depression and risked her life in the Spanish Civil War. Her
dispatches from the front made her a legend, yet her private was often
messy and volcanic.
Her determination to be a war correspondent - and her conspicuous
success - contributed to the breakdown of her infamously stormy
marriage to Ernest Hemingway. In this mesmerising biography of a life
that spanned the twentieth century, Moorehead reveals how passionately
Martha fought against injustice, and how determined she was to catch
the human story.
Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya
Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. Well known for her work in human
rights, she has published a history of the Red Cross and a book about
refugees,
Human Cargo.
Her book,
Dancing to the Precipice
, a biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, was shorlisted for the Costa
Biography Award in 2009. Caroline lives in London.
