It's a good sign: Joseph Kessel is going to enter the “Pleiades”, thus giving his letters of nobility to literary reporting, and his sister Martha Gellhorn was honored a few months ago by a commemorative plaque affixed to the facade of the house she lived in London, where she died in 1998. And this when the Editions du Sonneur are continuing their translation of the work of this extraordinary woman, witness to the tragedies of history and chaotic fate men, whom it covered for more than half a century, from the Spanish War to the GI invasion of Panama via the Vietnamese conflict. Witness his precious published documents: The War from the Front (1959), My Seasons in Hell and American Distress, on the Great Depression, to be placed alongside the Grapes of Wrath.
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At the evening of her life, this Missouri native, close to Leonard Bernstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nadejda Mandelstam and HG Wells, penultimate wife of Hemingway,
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