![]() ![]() While there she started an affair with Ernest Hemingway and the couple married in 1940. In 1937 Gellhorn was employed by Collier's Weekly to report the Spanish Civil War. Her findings were the basis of a novella, The Trouble I've Seen (1936). Her reports for that agency caught the attention of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the two women became lifelong friends. When Gellhorn returned home she was hired by Harry Hopkins as an investigator for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, where she had the task of reporting the impact of the Depression on the United States. While in Europe she became active in the pacifist movement and wrote about her experiences in the book, What Mad Pursuit(1934). Her first articles appeared in the New Republic, but determined to become a foreign correspondent, she moved to France to work for the United Press bureau in Paris. Gellhorn attended Bryn Mawr College but left in 1927 to begin a career as a writer. ![]() When she was a child her mother was involved in the women's suffrage movement. Martha Gellhorn, the daughter of George Gellhorn, a gynecologist, and Edna Fischel, was born in St. ![]()
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