TIMELINE

YEAR	PERSONAL	WORKS	WORLD EVENTS
1908	Born Martha Ellis Gellhorn in St. Louis	N/A	William Howard Taft elected 27th President
1926	Enrolled in Bryn Mawr College	42 poems published in The John Burroughs Review	First transAtlantic radiotelephone conversation links London and New York
1929	Drops out of Bryn Mawr College	Writing articles for the New Republic	U.S. Stock Market crashes
1930	Departs for Paris	Writes an article for Holland America Line to pay for passage	4,000,000 Americans unemployed by spring
1934	Returns to the United States	Reports on the Roosevelt welfare policies for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, publishes What Mad Pursuit	Drought and dust storms turn the Great Plains into a Dust Bowl
1936	Meets Ernest Hemingway in Key West	Publishes The Trouble I've Seen	Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to a second term
1937	Reports with Hemingway From Madrid	War correspondence for Collier's Weekly covering the Spanish Civil War	The German derigible Hindenburg destroyed by fire
1938	Travels between Spain and Czechoslovakia, then back to U.S.	Collier's war coverage, begins working on next novel	President Roosevelt stresses need for a strong military, expresses shock by the increase of anti-Semitic activity in Germany
1939	Travels to Helsinki	Reports on Russo-Finnish war	Isolationist sentiment begins to disintegrate as Americans watch the spread of Facism across Europe
1940	Marries Hemingway	Publishes A Stricken Field	Germany overruns most of Scandanavia, Japanese enter Nanking
1941	Travels to China and Dutch East Indies	Reports on Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese war, publishes Heart of Another	Pearl Harbor bombed, U.S. declares war on Japan
1942	Conducts an investigative trip in the Caribbean	Reports on military preparedness	US bombers make their first raid on Europe
1943	Returs to Europe as a War Correspondent	War reports sent from London	Allied forces begin to take the offensive winning North Africa, Sicily and holding their own in the Pacific
1944	Travels to Italy, North Africa, Cuba, and back to London. Walks out on Hemingway, participates in the D-Day Invasion	Publishes Liana	Roosevelt elected to a fourth term, Allied troops liberate Paris
1945	Follows the 82d (Airborne) Division across Central Europe, visits Dachau, returns to the U.S.	War Reports from Europe	President Roosevelt dies, Japan and Germany surrender, General Patton dies in a car accident
1946	Travels to Java	Reports on Dutch Indonesian conflict, Nuremburg Trials	Economy begins healthy recovery, Russian "Cold War" begins
1948-1953	Lives in Mexico	Publishes The Wine of AstonishmentandThe honeyed Peace	Korean War begins and ends
1954-1962	Travels about Europe, Isreal, marries T.S. Matthews	Publishes His Own Man, Two By Twoand a revised edition of The Face of War	Mcarthyism, Nixon visits Moscow, JFK elected, Cuban Missile Crisis
1963-1978	Travels to Vietnam to cover the war for London's GuardianDivorces T.S. Matthews	Publishes The Lowest Trees Have Tops, Pretty Tales for Tired People, The Weather in Africa, Vietnam: A New Kind of War and Travels With Myself and Another	Vietnam, Man on the Moon, Nixon Resigns, Country's Bicentennial
1978-1997	Lives in London, travels to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba and Panama to cover conflicts	Continues to freelance	"Cold War" ends
February 16, 1998	Dies of cancer at her home in London