Everybody knows who she was. But her glamour and marriage to that famous writer and friendships with the great and near-great and all that travel and war reporting--the stuff you hear about her--doesn't really get at her except in the most glancing, superficial way. Martha Gellhorn was entirely herself: Stubborn, nonconformist, tactless, brutal, brilliant, gorgeous, breathtakingly brave and honest. Making big mistakes, driving people crazy, being a wonderful friend. Writing, always writing (while sunbathing in the nude, whenever possible). Ignore the pretentious sections by the book's editor, Gellhorn's biographer Caroline Moorhead, and spend some quality time with a real woman.