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MARTHA GELLHORN (1908 - 1988)
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Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 15 February 1998) was a German American novelist, travel writer and journalist. In her six-decade career as a war correspondent, Martha Gellhorn has covered the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and wars in Vietnam, the Middle East, and Central America. (In 1990, at the age of 81, she interrupted a snorkeling trip to Belize to witness the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Panama; her report appeared in Granta.) Gellhorn has published fifteen books, including eight novels, short fiction, and two collections of journalistic articles.
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Love Goes To PressLove Goes To Press
Written on a lark by a pair of veteran war correspondents who had never written a play before but had time on their hands in the months after the end of World War II, this marvelously witty farce enjoyed a long, healthy run in London's West End but died on Broadway after a mere four-day run. It garnered an impressive array of blistering reviews that accused it of being everything from "callous" to "frivolous" to "a libel on the profession" of journalism. Nearly 50 years later, after Catch-22 and M*a*S*H, it seems pretty innocuous, though much of its humor remains fresh and lively. Semiautobiographical, the comedy concerns a pair of female correspondents who brave World War II, outdo their male colleagues, yet remain torn between their profession and the tugs upon their heartstrings. Especially noteworthy is the play's remarkably unglamorous view of life in wartime, particularly of the conditions in which wartime journalists lived and wrote. Jack Helbig
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written by Martha Gellhorn And Virginia Cowles. Written immediately After the war, Love Goes to Press opened in London in June 1946 And in New York in January 1947. Then A relief for the survivors of Blitzkrieg And ration cards, it is now A devilishly entertaining portrayal of the Battle of the Sexes. This romantic farce, published here for the first time, is set on the Italian front in World War II, where two women war correspondents - smart, sexy, And famous for scooping their male competitors - struggle to balance their professional lives with their love lives. The American literary tradition is rife with stories of men without women, but in Love Goes to Press Gellhorn And Cowles have created A world of women without men. The plot focuses on A pair of daring, quick-witted female buddies in bold pursuit of Accomplishment And Adventure while narrowly eluding the entanglements of marriage And domesticity.
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London 1946
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University of Nebraska Press (May 28, 1995), edited by Sandra Spanier 978-0803221543
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romantic farce in three acts
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Male: 6 Female: 5 Other: -
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