"and communication skills to report on how the people of that town were affected by the Depression. Later, she worked with Dorothea Lange, a photographer, to document the everyday lives of the hungry and homeless. Their reports later became part of the official government files for the Great Depression. They were able to investigate topics that were not usually open to women of the 1930s, which made Gellhorn, as well as Lange, major contributors to American history. Her findings were the basis of a collection of short stories, ""The Trouble I've Seen"" (1936). Gellhorn first met Ernest Hemingway during a"
"moved to Montana where he manages the intellectual property of his father's estate. He edited his father's unpublished novel about a 1950s safari to Africa and published it with the title ""True at First Light"" (1999). Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he traveled with his parents to Europe in 1929 and again in 1933, to Wyoming and Idaho during his summers, though his permanent residence was in Key West. In 1940, his parents divorced, after which his father married Martha Gellhorn. After their marriage, they moved to Cuba where Patrick visited often. At the beginning of World War II, Patrick"
"an American businessman (1945); journalist William Walton (1947) (no relation to the British composer); and medical doctor David Gurewitsch (1950). In 1954, she married the former managing editor of ""Time Magazine"", T. S. Matthews. She and Matthews divorced in 1963. She stayed in London for some time before moving to Kenya and then to Devauden in Gwent, south Wales, where she was very taken by the niceness of the Welsh people, before finally returning to London because of her ill-health. In 1949, Gellhorn adopted a boy, Sandy, from an Italian orphanage. Although Gellhorn was briefly a devoted mother, she was"
"couple never married. Hellman's accuracy was challenged after she brought a libel suit against Mary McCarthy. In 1979, on ""The Dick Cavett Show"", McCarthy said that ""every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'."" During the libel suit, investigators found errors in Hellman's popular memoirs such as ""Pentimento."" They said that the ""Julia"" section of ""Pentimento"", which had been the basis for the Oscar-winning 1977 movie of the same name, was actually based on the life of Muriel Gardiner. Martha Gellhorn, one of the most prominent war correspondents of the twentieth century, as well as Ernest Hemingway's"
"(1954). His semi-autobiographical novel ""Lillelord"" (1955) is his most famous book. ""Lillelord"" is the first book in the trilogy that also includes ""De mørke kilder"" and ""Vi har ham nå"" published in 1956 and 1957. From 1934 until his death in 1979, he was married to novelist Annemarta Evjenth Borgen (1913-1988). The couple were the parents of three children including author Brett Borgen (1934–2014). Johan Borgen Johan Collett Müller Borgen (28 April 1902 – 16 October 1979) was a Norwegian author, journalist and critic. His best-known work is the novel ""Lillelord"" for which he was awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize"
"Gabriele Annan Gabriele Annan (née Ullstein, 1921–2013), was a German-born British author and literary and film critic, and the wife of the military intelligence officer, author, and academic Noel Annan, Baron Annan. She was born Gabriele Ullstein in Berlin, on 25 November 1921 in Berlin, the daughter of Louis-Ferdinand Ullstein (1863–1933), one of five Jewish brothers who owned a large newspaper, magazine, and book publishing business, and his wife Martha Ullstein, née Joel (1889–1974). She was the only child from her father's second marriage, and until the age of 11, lived in a mansion in the Grünewald, now the British"
"theory. The work has been widely cited for its introduction of the concept ""phallic criticism"" as applied to writers of both sexes. In a review of academic studies of gender, Mary Poovey described ""Thinking About Women"" as an example of the ""earliest U.S. incarnation"" of feminist literary criticism, which, ""with the excitement of pioneers discovering virgin territory... helped make writing about women academically acceptable."" Ellmann married the literary critic Richard Ellmann in 1949. The couple had three children, Stephen, Maud, and Lucy. Mary Ellmann Mary Ellmann (1921–89) was an American writer and literary critic. Magazines she reviewed for included the"
"of ""Glenarvon"", the 1816 ""succès de scandale"","" presumed to be Lady Caroline Lamb. She has also been identified as ""Mrs Bridget Bluemantle"", author of nine Minerva Press novels from 1806 to 1818, though this identification remains problematic. She also used the pseudonym of ""Mrs Martha Homely"". Elizabeth Thomas (poet/novelist) Elizabeth Thomas [née Wolferstan] (1770/71–1855), novelist and poet, is an ambiguous figure. Details of her early life are missing, and her authorship of some works attributed to her is contested. She was born in Devon to Mary (d. 1818) and Edward Wolferstan (d. 1788). In or around 1795 she married the"
"Otto Kyllmann Otto Kyllmann (died 1958) was a publisher and senior director of Constable & Co from 1909 until 1950. Kyllmann's first wife was Victoria Mary Louise Adelaide Cunliffe-Owen, sister of Dame Mary Wills, but they were divorced and she remarried in 1919. His second marriage also ended in divorce. He enjoyed a close relationship with scholar/writer Helen Waddell, several of whose books were later published by Constable, where Kyllmann had helped Waddell obtain employment. Besides Waddell, Kyllman's literary protégés included George Bernard Shaw, May Sinclair and Marie Corelli. A collection of Kyllmann's correspondence, dated between 1900 and 1957, is"
"Aurora Ljungstedt ""Aurora"" Lovisa Ljungstedt née ""Hjort"", pseudonym ""Claude Gérard"" (2 September 1821, Karlskrona - 21 February 1908, Stockholm), was a Swedish writer. She is regarded to be the first crime novel author of her country and has been referred to as Sweden's Edgar Allan Poe. She was born as the eldest of four children to major Georg Leonard Hjort (1788-1872) and Fredrika Elisabeth Alf (1792-1877). In 1846, she married Samuel Viktor Ljungstedt (1820-1904), an official in the prison care bureau, and settled in Stockholm. She had three children. Ljungstedt displayed talent early on but her mother disapproved of a"
"Stella Gibbons Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, ""Cold Comfort Farm"" (1932) which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary works—which included a sequel to ""Cold Comfort Farm""—achieved the same critical or popular success. Much of her work was long out of print before a modest revival in the 21st century. The daughter of a London doctor, Gibbons had a turbulent and often"
"her second husband, John Forrest. Mabel Forrest Helena Mabel Checkley Forrest (6 March 1872 – 18 March 1935) was an Australian writer and journalist. Forrest was born near Yandilla, Queensland (now part of Toowoomba Region), the daughter of James Checkley Mills and his wife Margaret Nelson, ""née"" Haxell. She began writing at an early age but did not publish her first book, ""The Rose of Forgiveness and other Stories"", until 1904. She became well known as a writer of verse following the publication of her first volume of poems, ""Alpha Centauri"", which appeared in Melbourne in 1909. Her first novel"
"the other novels, on a print-on-demand basis. Publisher information relates to first publication only. Many of the books have been reissued, usually by different publishers. Notes Citations Sources Stella Gibbons Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, ""Cold Comfort Farm"" (1932) which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary works—which included a sequel to ""Cold Comfort Farm""—achieved the same critical or popular success. Much"
"in the following year she married the well-known art dealer and Plato scholar Hugo Perls. She eventually became an American citizen and continued to write both journalistically and creatively, covering American theater, music and art. One of her later books, ""Min Son är Min"" (""My Son is Mine""), appeared in 1965 and was well received. The writer died in January 1973, at the age of sixty-nine. Eugénie Söderberg Eugenie Söderberg (1903–1973) was a Swedish-American writer and journalist born in Heidelberg, Germany noted for her profound concern with women's issues which she addressed in her novels and short stories. In 1912,"
"women. In 1968, Washington University created the Edna Fischel Gellhorn Professorship of Public Affairs. At age 79, Gellhorn was selected as Woman of Achievement by the ""St. Louis Globe-Democrat"". She died in St. Louis in 1970. Her papers are held in the collection of Washington University. Edna Fischel Gellhorn's daughter, Martha Gellhorn, was a war reporter.[2] Edna Fischel Gellhorn Edna Fischel Gellhorn (1878 – 1970) was an American suffragist and reformer who played a prominent role in founding the National League of Women Voters. Edna Fischel Gellhorn was born on December 18, 1878 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father taught"
"the libraries of London, Paris, The Hague, Carlsruhe, and Spain. After an extended tour through Germany, France, England, and Spain, Bettelheim became, in 1880, the feuilleton editor of the Vienna """"Presse"""". He retained this position until 1884, when he became editor of the """"Deutsche Wochenschrift"""". In 1886, he joined the editorial staff of the """"Deutsche Zeitung"""", which position he resigned shortly after to publish the """"Biographische Blätter"""", subsequently issued as """"Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog"""". Bettelheim was married to the writer and graphic Helene Bettelheim-Gabillon (1857–1946), a daughter of the actors-couple ""Ludwig"" (1828–1896)and ""Zerline"" (1834–1892) ""Gabillon"". Their children, Ministerialrat Dr."
"write stories in earnest in 1883. In 1886, she married again to John Loughead (pronounced ""Lockheed""). John adopted the children from her first marriage. Two of those children, May and Victor, grew to be adults. The same year, she published ""Hand-book of Natural Science"". She then turned her hand to fiction with ""The Man Who was Guilty"", which initially had local reputation, before being taken up by a Boston house in 1886. In the same year, she published ""The Black Curtain"". In 1889, she published a housekeeper's book on ""Quick Cooking: A Book of Culinary Heresies for the Busy Wives"
"Zelda Fitzgerald Zelda Fitzgerald (; July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948) was an American socialite, novelist, painter and wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, she was noted for her beauty and high spirits, and was dubbed by her husband as ""the first American Flapper"". She and Scott became emblems of the Jazz Age, for which they are still celebrated. The immediate success of Scott's first novel ""This Side of Paradise"" (1920) brought them into contact with high society, but their marriage was plagued by wild drinking, infidelity and bitter recriminations. Ernest Hemingway, whom Zelda disliked,"
"marriages, including to producer/screenwriter Sidney Harmon (married 1934–1940) and financier/art collector Joseph H. Hirshhorn (married 1947–1956). With Hirshhorn, she adopted two daughters, named Amy and Jo Ann. Lily Harmon Lily Harmon (born Lillian Perelmutter; 1912–1998) was an American visual artist. She studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts in New Haven, and then went on to the Académie Colarossi in Paris, and lastly at the Art Students League of New York. Harmon illustrated books in the period 1945–1976, including by such authors as Franz Kafka, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Mann, and Edith Wharton. Harmon was the subject of"
"recognized with honors and fellowships, including the Royal Literary Fund; Queen Margaret University 2017/18; University of Dundee 2011/12; Queen Margaret University 2005-07; and been a Hawthornden Fellow and Hawthornden fellowship residence at Hawthornden Castle. Lucy Ellmann Lucy Ellmann (born 18 October 1956) is an Anglo-American novelist who now lives in Scotland. Her first book, ""Sweet Desserts"", won the Guardian Fiction Prize. She is the daughter of the American biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann and the feminist literary critic Mary Ellmann. She is married to the American writer Todd McEwen. Her fourth novel, ""Dot in the Universe"", was longlisted for"
"1936 Christmas family trip to Key West, Florida. They agreed to travel to Spain together to cover the Spanish Civil War, where Gellhorn had been hired to report for ""Collier's Weekly"". The pair celebrated Christmas of 1937 together in Barcelona. Later, from Germany, she reported on the rise of Adolf Hitler. In the spring of 1938 (months before the Munich Agreement), she was in Czechoslovakia. After the outbreak of World War II, she described these events in the novel ""A Stricken Field"" (1940). She later reported the war from Finland, Hong Kong, Burma, Singapore, and England. Lacking official press credentials"
"Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, named for the war correspondent, Martha Gellhorn, was established in 1999 by the Martha Gellhorn Trust. It is founded on the following principles: The award will be for the kind of reporting that distinguished Martha: in her own words ""the view from the ground"". This is essentially a human story that penetrates the established version of events and illuminates an urgent issue buried by prevailing fashions of what makes news. We would expect the winner to tell an unpalatable truth, validated by powerful facts, that exposes establishment conduct and"
"Union. In October 1937, Hellman spent a few weeks in Spain to lend her support, as other writers had, to the International Brigades of non-Spaniards who had joined the anti-Franco side in the Spanish Civil War. As bombs fell on Madrid, she broadcast a report to the U.S. on Madrid Radio. In 1989, journalist and Ernest Hemingway's third wife, Martha Gellhorn, herself in Spain at that period, disputed the account of this trip in Hellman's memoirs and claimed that Hellman waited until all the witnesses were dead before describing events that never occurred. Nevertheless, Hellman had documented her trip in"
"of the Indian curriculum, for the students of class 12 CBSE in their Flamingo textbook. Works published in Swedish with English translations. Her vogue in the United States was in part due to Velma Swanton Howard, who early believed in her appeal to Americans and carefully translated many of her books. Selma Lagerlöf Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author and teacher. She published her first novel, ""Gösta Berling's Saga"", at the age of 33. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was"
"sensory system. He wrote two memoir books from his World War II experiences, ""Amatørspionen ""Lerken"""" (""Amateur Spy 'The Lark'"", 1985) and ""Usynlige soldater"" (""Invisible Soldiers"", 1990)—the latter together with Bjarne Thorsen. He was married to Mia Sverdrup Thygeson from 1949, and to Elsa Lundh from 1978. Bjørn Rørholt Bjørn Arnold Rørholt (27 August 1919 – 3 May 1993) was a Norwegian engineer, military officer, Secret Intelligence Service agent and resistance member during World War II. Rørholt was born in Aker as the son of military officer Arnold Rørholt (1884–1961) and his wife Luise Fredrikke Lund (1891–1965). He was a first"
"in Feuerbach. Two children emerged from the marriage (Anne-Marie, born in 1918, Günther, born in 1921). Gustav Lepman fought during the First World War as a German officer in France. He survived the First World War, but died in 1922 from his injuries of war. After the death of her husband, Jella Lepman became editor of the ""Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt"", the first woman ever in this position. She wrote socio-political contributions and established ""The woman in house, profession and society"", in 1927. In addition, she published her first children's book (1927 ""The Sleeping Sunday"") and a theatrical play for children"
"poetry. The second edition of the book also includes a brief biography of Ebba Lindqvist written by Birgitta Ivarson Bergsten (). Ebba Lindqvist ""Ebba"" Helfrid ""Lindqvist"" -Galéen (April 7, 1908 in Oscar Fredrik parish, Gothenburg, grew up in Grebbestad – 5 September 1995 in Varberg), was a Swedish writer (poet). She studied for a Master's degree in Uppsala and became a Swedish teacher at Göteborg upper secondary school for girls. Married in 1933 with business school graduate Ivar Galéen and eventually had three children. Poetry critic at Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning (Gothenburg, Trade and Shipping Gazette) from 1949 to 1956."
"and Maria Schellenberg. In 1924 in Geneva, Mathews married Virginia Winslow Hopper. They first settled in California, where they had two children, John and Virginia. The couple divorced. Mathews returned to Oklahoma, where he stayed the rest of his life. Years later in 1945 he married Elizabeth Hunt. She worked with him on much of his research related to the Osage and their forced migration from Missouri to Oklahoma. He considered her son John Hunt a stepson. After his return to Oklahoma, Mathews began writing in the late 1920s and published his first book, a work of literary non-fiction, ""Wah'kon-tah:"
"first novel was cited by prominent American psychologist G. Stanley Hall, in his pioneering study of adolescence, as a parallel to the famously frank (and accusedly egotistic) authors Marie Bashkirtseff, Hilma Angered Strandberg, and Mary MacLane. Mathilda Malling Ingrid Mathilda Kruse Malling (Jan 20, 1864 – Mar 21, 1942), known as Mathilda Malling, and even better known by her early ""nom de plume"", Stella Kleve, was a Swedish novelist born January 20, 1864, on her family's farm, in North Mellby Parish, Kristianstad County, Sweden and died in København, Esajas sn, Sjælland, Copenhagen in 1942. Daughter of Danish estate owner, Frans"
"1981 he appeared as Professor Reinhardt in the movie ""Mephisto"", which was awarded with the 1981 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Martin Hellberg was married to Berta Gurewitsch from 1926 to 1935. Then Gurewitsch emigrated to Palestine together with their son Yigal Tumarkin. Tumarkin's youngest son and Hellberg's grandson Yon is a well known Israeli actor. After his marriage with Gurwitsch Hellberg got to know his second wife Ruth Baldor. Ruth Baldor was an actress and appeared in several of Hellbergs films. The couple separated at the end of the sixties. During his last years as a writer,"
"of three novels, ""The Side of the Angels"" (1947), ""The Walls of Heaven"" (1951), and ""The Notion of Sin"" (1959). With his wife, Mignon McLaughlin, he wrote a play ""Gayden"", which had a limited run on Broadway in 1949. He retired from ""Time"" in 1968, when they moved to Florida. He died in Coral Gables, Florida on October 23, 1973. Robert E. McLaughlin Robert E(mmet) McLaughlin (September 21, 1908 – October 23, 1973) was an American journalist and author. He was an editor at ""Time"" magazine for more than 20 years (1948–1969). He was the author of numerous short stories,"
"The laureates include prominent people like Elisabeth Rehn (1996), Märta Tikkanen (2001), Eva Biaudet (2006), and Astrid Thors (2011). Fredrika Runeberg Fredrika Charlotta Runeberg (September 2, 1807, Jakobstad – May 27, 1879, Helsinki), born Fredrika Tengström, was a Finnish (Finland-Swedish) novelist, journalist and the wife of Finland's national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg. She was a pioneer of Finnish historical fiction and one of the first woman journalists in Finland. In her own time, she was mainly known as the wife of her famous husband, poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg. The family lived most of their life in Porvoo, where she created"
"Edwin Mullhouse Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright is the critically acclaimed debut novel by American author Steven Millhauser, published in 1972 and written in the form of a biography of a fictitious person by a fictitious author. It was Millhauser's best known novel until the publication of his Pulitzer Prize-winning ""Martin Dressler"" in 1997, and according to Patrick McGrath writing in ""The New York Times"" it is his best work. ""Edwin Mullhouse"" is described by ""Publishers Weekly"" as a 'cult novel'. Jeffrey Cartwright plays Boswell to Edwin Mullhouse's Johnson, and writes"