There was never any question on this one - Travels With Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn stayed on the shelf. Of course.

But how cool is this - a cover story in a 1951 issue of The Atlantic? It's so her - typewriter and all! The magazine wrote about her in 2006, nearly ten years after her death, noting that she has been remembered more for her marriage to Hemingway than her literary and journalistic contributions. (Although we should all note that she was the one who left him.) But look at what kind of reporter she was:

A gutsy reporter, Gellhorn would go to great lengths to get a story—stowing away on a hospital ship and sneaking ashore as a stretcher bearer during the D-Day landings at Normandy, riding along with British pilots on night bombing raids over Germany, accompanying Allied troops when they liberated Dachau. And her energy reserves seemed inexhaustible: incredibly, in 1989, at the age of eighty-one, she was still out at the front reporting—on the United States invasion of Panama. It was only when war came to Bosnia that she had to pass on taking an assignment, saying that she was too old and not "nimble" enough for war anymore.

Still not sure how I feel about Nicole Kidman playing her in the movie though.

[Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn during the Spanish Civil War, circa 1937-1938. Photograph in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.]