Martha Ellis Gellhorn, also known as Martha Gellhorn, was an American journalist (and novelist) who was considered to be one of the best in the 20th century. Gellhorn was born to George Gellhorn (a gynecologist) and Edna Fischel Gellhorn (a suffragist for women's right to vote). Before dropping out to pursue her career in journalism (the occupation of reporting, writing, and broadcasting news) in 1927, Gellhorn had attended Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia. For a while after dropping out of college, she wrote for the New Republic before taking up a job in New York in Albany as a crime reporter. During the February of 1930, Martha Gellhorn wrote a brochure for the Holland American Line to pay for a boat trip across the ocean to Paris where she would soon work a numerous amount of different jobs. From here, her career began.
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