Foreign war correspondent for TIME magazine in the 1930s through to the 1950s, prior to becoming a novelist. Through her work overseas, she and her husband met and befriended author Ernest Hemingway. She also wrote articles for magazines Fortune, Life, and US News & World Report as well as a few program scripts for CBS. Wertenbaker went on to write a memoir, Death of a Man, in which she talks about helping her husband with his assisted suicide in 1955 after his terminal colon cancer diagnosis. A stage play was later made of this memoir, starring Henry Fonda and Olivia DeHavilland. Wertenbaker herself died of lung cancer in 1997 at the age of 87.
Foreign war correspondent for TIME magazine in the 1930s through to the 1950s, prior to becoming a novelist. Through her work overseas, she and her husband met and befriended author Ernest Hemingway. She also wrote articles for magazines Fortune, Life, and US News & World Report as well as a few program scripts for CBS. Wertenbaker went on to write a memoir, Death of a Man, in which she talks about helping her husband with his assisted suicide in 1955 after his terminal colon cancer diagnosis. A stage play was later made of this memoir, starring Henry Fonda and Olivia DeHavilland. Wertenbaker herself died of lung cancer in 1997 at the age of 87.
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