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041			_aEnglish
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100	1		_aGellhorn, Martha,
245	1	0	_aSelected letters of Martha Gellhorn / _cedited by Caroline Moorehead.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bH. Holt, _c2006.
300			_a531 p. ; _c25 cm.
500			_aIncludes index. Henry Holt and Company, LLC Publishers since 1866 175 Fifth Aver New York, New York 10010 www.henryholt.com Henry Holt and are registered trademarks of Henry Holt and Company, LLC. This edited selection of Martha Gellhorn's letters copyright© 2006 by the Estate of Martha Gellhorn Narrative and connective passages copyright© 2006 by Caroline Moorehead All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gellhorn, Martha, 1908- Selected letters of Martha Gellhorn / edited by Caroline Moorehead. 1st ed. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-6555-8 ISBN-10: 0-8050-6555-5 1. Gellhorn, Martha, 1908-Correspondence. 2. Authors, American- 20th century-Correspondence. 3 . Journalists-United States- Correspondence. I. Moorehead, Caroline. II. Title. PS3513.E46Z48 2006 070.4'333092-dc22 2006041168 Henry Holt books are available for special promotions and premiums. For details contact: Director, Special Markets. First Edition 2006 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4321
500			_a From Martha Gellhorn's critically acclaimed biographer, the first collected letters of this defining figure of the twentieth-century Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international conflict between the Spanish Civil War and the end of the Cold War. While Gellhorn's wartime dispatches rank among the best of the century, her personal letters are their equal: as vivid and fascinating as anything she ever published. Gellhorn's correspondence from 1930 to 1996--chronicling friendships with figures as diverse as Eleanor Roosevelt, Leonard Bernstein, and H. G. Wells, as well as her tempestuous marriage to Ernest Hemingway--paint a vivid picture of the twentieth century as she lived it. Caroline Moorehead, who was granted exclusive access to the letters, has expertly edited this fascinating volume, providing prefatory and interstitial material that contextualizes Gellhorn's correspondence within the arc of her entire life. The letters introduce us to the woman behind the correspondent--a writer of wit, charm, and vulnerability. The result is an exhilarating, intimate portrait of one of the most accomplished women of modern tim
650		0	_aAuthors, American
650		0	_aJournalists
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