A Woman to Know: Martha Gellhorn

Why should I be a footnote to somebody else's life? — Martha Gellhorn

Why should I be a footnote to somebody else's life? — Martha Gellhorn

(image via Library of Congress)

Martha covered 50 years of war. As a correspondent for The Atlantic, The New Republic and other legendary publications, she traveled around the world reporting from the Spanish War, Nazi Germany, Nicaraguan contras, the Vietnam War and more. In 1989, at a…