THIS DAY IN WYOLIT HISTORY: On November 21, 1940, novelist and short story writer Ernest Hemingway married war correspondent and author Martha Gellhorn in Cheyenne. Hemingway's friend, noted photographer Robert Capa, shot the ceremony for Life magazine. The Author’s Calendar web site describes the relationship this way: “The first years of their marriage were happy, although Gellhorn was never really attracted to Hemingway, or believed in romantic love. Hemingway taught her to ride, and shoot, and fish. In the afternoon they played tennis.” The couple spent most of the next five years apart, covering various World War II battles for Colliers’ magazine. They were divorced in 1945. Hemingway committed suicide in Idaho in 1961 and Gellhorn continued her life as a war correspondent, covering the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the war in Vietnam, and, when she was 81 years old, the U.S. invasion of Panama. She died in 1998.

Sources: Wyoming Almanac; http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gellhorn.

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