Later Career
After the war, Gellhorn worked for the Atlantic Monthly, covering the Vietnam War, the Six-Day War in the Middle East, and the civil wars in Central America. At age 81 she even travelled impromptu to Panama where she wrote on the U.S. invasion. Only when the Bosnian War broke out in the 1990s did she concede she was too old to go, saying, "You need to be nimble."
Gellhorn published numerous books, including a collection of articles on war, The Face of War (1959); a novel about McCarthyism, The Lowest Trees Have Tops (1967); an account of her travels (including one trip with Hemingway), Travels With Myself and Another (1978); and a collection of her peacetime journalism, The View From the Ground (1988).
Peripatetic by nature, Gellhorn reckoned that in a 40-year span of her life, she had created 19 homes in different locales.
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