Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn

First published 1990 as Nothing Ever Happens to the Brave: The Story of Martha Gellhorn by St. Martin’s Press

Encyclopedia of American literatur: the modern and postmodern period from 1915, vol.3/ Rollyson

xxi, 230 hal.; 28 cm

Faulkner\u27s First Biographies: Early Notices

“The mysterious man from Mississippi cat-footed off the coastwise steamer Mallory at dawn today and ducked into a taxi.” This New York World Telegram profile, “William Faulkner, ‘Literary Hope’ from Mississippi Likens Himself in City to a ‘Houn’ Dawg Under a Wagon,’” published in 1931, presented an enigma, a man who said he had one friend in the North, one man he liked. What did the press and the first major profiles make of this startling writer, and how did those early notices shape our vision of an artist that biographers are still trying to comprehend

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Biography of Gellhorn, recounting her initial meeting with Hemingway at Sloppy Joe’s in Key West, their subsequent affair and marriage, time spent covering the Spanish Civil War, and eventual divorce. Relevant pages: 122, 128-29, 137-42, 147-76, 178-89, 192, 194-96. Also published 2001 as Beautiful Exile: The Life of Martha Gellhorn by Aurum Press