Martha Gellhorn spent seven decades railing against poverty, ignorance, corruption, and violence, on behalf of democracy.

Just how great must a woman’s achievements be before her story can stand clear of romantic lies?

Martha Gellhorn suffered every major diagnostic criterion for trauma.

Discrimination often fuels creativity in the marginal spaces left to those excluded, so Martha Gellhorn became something different from a war correspondent: she became a writer at war, and one of a kind.