No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the Century: Adventura Books
Autor Emily Hahn Introducere de Ken Cuthbertson Cuvânt înainte de Sheila McGrathen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 noi 2000
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781580050456
ISBN-10: 158005045X
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:Seal Press.
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Seal Press
Seria Adventura Books
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 158005045X
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:Seal Press.
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Seal Press
Seria Adventura Books
Locul publicării:United States
Descriere
Emily Hahn, staff writer for "The New Yorker" for more than 70 years, describes her experiences traveling alone in the Belgian Congo at age 25, her liaisons with a Chinese poet and a British spy, and her life as a writer in Greenwich Village.
Notă biografică
A revolutionary woman for her time and an enormously creative writer, Emily Hahn broke all of the rules of the 1920s, including by traveling the country dressed as a boy, working for the Red Cross in Belgium, being the concubine to a Shanghai poet, using opium, and having a child out of wedlock. Hahn kept on fighting against the stereotype of female docility that characterized the Victorian era and was an advocate for the environment until her death at age ninety-two. Emily Hahn (1905-1997) was the author of fifty-two books, as well as one hundred eighty-one articles and short stories for the New Yorker from 1929 to 1996. She was a staff writer for the magazine for forty-seven years. She wrote novels, short stories, personal essays, reportage, poetry, history and biography, natural history and zoology, cookbooks, humor, travel, children's books, and four autobiographical narratives: China to Me (1944), a literary exploration of her trip to China; Hong Kong Holiday (1946); England to Me (1949); and Kissing Cousins (1958). The fifth of six children, she was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and later became the first woman to earn a degree in mining engineering at the University of Wisconsin. She did graduate work at both Columbia and Oxford before leaving for Shanghai. She lived in China for eight years. Her wartime affair with Charles Boxer, Britain's chief spy in pre-World War II Hong Kong, evolved into a loving and unconventional marriage that lasted fifty-two years and produced two daughters. Emily Hahn's final published piece in the New Yorker appeared in 1996, shortly before her death.