Ernest Hemingway endures: his inimitable writing; his dramatic death by self-inflicted gunshot at the relatively young age of 61; his big-game hunting, hard-drinking, macho persona; his four wives. But like many oft-married celebrities—think Henry VIII or Elizabeth Taylor (we all remember Richard Burton, but who knows much about Mike Todd?)—many of those spouses have tended to become footnotes in the lives of their charismatic spouses. In the case of Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway’s third of four wives, that oversight seems particularly egregious.
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