Beautiful Exile
The Life of Martha Gellhorn
Published on 28. June 2016
322 pages
978-1-5040-2988-9 (ISBN)
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Martha Gellhorn died in February 1998, just shy of her 90th birthday. Well before her death, she had become a legend. She reported on wars from Spain in the 1930s to Panama in the 1980s, and her travel books are considered classics. Her marriage to Ernest Hemingway, affairs with legendary lovers like H. G. Wells, and her relationships with two presidents, Roosevelt and Kennedy, reflect her campaigns against tyranny and deprivation, as well as her outrage at the corruption and cruelty of modern governments. This controversial and acclaimed biography portrays a vibrant and troubled woman who never tired of fighting for causes she considered just.
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Carl Rollyson has written biographies on Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman, Norman Mailer, Pablo Picasso, Rebecca West, and Susan Sontag. His titles include
Biography Before Boswell,
Reading Biography,
Essays in Biography,
Biography: An Annotated Bibliography,
British Biography: A Reader,
Lives of the Novelists,
Female Icons: Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag,
Marie Curie,
The Literacy Legacy of Rebecca West, and
American Biography.
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Spirit of St Louis 1860-1923
- 2. A Window on the World 1923-1926
- 3. Liberation 1929-1930
- 4. Beautiful Exile 1931-1934
- 5. A Dangerous Communist 1934-1936
- 6. Hemingway Hell or High Water 1936-1937
- 7. A Window on War 1937
- 8. The Agony of Her Own Soul 1938
- 9. Trapped 1938-1940
- 10. Horror Journey and Husband 1941-1942
- 11. The Unending Battle 1942-1943
- 12. War 1943-1945
- 13. Point of No Return 1945-1947
- 14. A Private Golden Age 1948-1952
- 15. Open Marriage 1952-1960
- 16. Heart's Desire 1960-1963
- 17. A New Kind of War 1965-1969
- 18. Hope Against Hope 1967-1972
- 19. The Legend of Martha Gellhorn 1972-1998
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright Page
