![]() ![]() She covered the build-up to the Second World War for Collier’s, travelling in France, England, Czechoslovakia, Finland and the Far East. As a partisan journalist she always disdained ‘all that objectivity shit’ and, in her support of the Republican cause, let atrocities committed by that side go unreported. Gellhorn made her mark by writing about the effect of war on the lives of ordinary people. In 1937 she reported on the Spanish Civil War for The New Yorker and the liberal weekly magazine, Collier’s. Soon afterwards she published a book of short stories based on these experiences – The Trouble I’ve Seen (1936) – and continued to write fiction alongside her journalism throughout her career. Using a clear and simple style, Gellhorn expressed fury at the treatment of the poor, weak and dispossessed, and worked with the photographer Dorothea Lange to document the effects of the Depression. She moved to Paris for two years in the early 1930s to pursue her dream of becoming a foreign correspondent, but it was her coverage of the American Great Depression in 1934 that launched her career. ![]() ![]() Martha Gellhorn was born in Missouri, United States, but travelled extensively throughout her life. ![]()
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