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By Ken Cuthbertson Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn [Paperback]

Biography - Dovlatov, Sergei (1941-1990): An article from: Contemporary Authors

This digital document, covering the life and work of Sergei Dovlatov, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 3557 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entr...

Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North

Emily Hahn was one of the most prolific and enduring writers at The New Yorker - her first by-line appeared there in 1926, her last in 1996. She was also the author of fifty-three books, and, had her 1933 travel memoir, Congo Solo, not been published in a censored version during the darkest days of ...

Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn

Known as "Mickey" to her friends, Emily Hahn traveled across the country dressed as a boy in the 1920s; ran away to the Belgian Congo as a Red Cross worker during the Great Depression; was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai in the 1930s; had an illegitimate child with the head of the Britis...

A Complex Fate: William L. Shirer and the American Century

William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and '30s, was a prominent member of what one contemporary observer described as an extraordinary band of American journalists, "some with the Midwest hayseed still in their hair," who gave their North Amer...

No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the 20th Century

Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the all-male precincts of the University of Wisconsin geology department as an undergraduate, traveled alone to the Belgian Congo at age 25, was the concubine of a...

Biography - Hogan, Desmond (1950-): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online

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Biography - Cuthbertson, Ken (1951-): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online

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