Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (688 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 057119950X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 383 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Through the 1920s she fledged as a writer and traveler, mingling with, but never quite joining, the smart set. Kurtz, provided grist for a memoir, Congo Sale, and a novel, With Naked Foot. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. You can be cattier than anyone I know." In 1930, she traveled alone to Penge, a remote backwater in the Congo, where her host, an American pal, turned into a kind of Mr. Unhappily, Cuthbertson begins to fall for his own melodrama ("Was that a glistening in his eyes, or was it a trick of the light?"), and the postwar pages become a tame resume of domestic arrangements and literary outpouring. From Publishers Weekly A globe-trotting New Yorker writer for 68 years?almost unt
A five-star subject Amazon Customer A five-star subject for sure. This is the ONLY book that puts all the pieces of Emily "Mickey" Hahn's life together in one place, since Mickey never wrote a comprehensive autobiography. It's a relatively quick read, and Cuthbertson does a great job overall in terms of weaving together facts, anecdotes, and quotes from Mickey's own writings. Be warned: it's not a perfect biography, and the author bends over backwards to justify (and wave away) some of Mickey's unjustif. Susan Suval said Great Biography of a Great Woman. This is a very interesting, well written biography of a very very interesting woman. I first encountered Emily Hahn as a source for the new novel, The Piano Teacher. China to Me, written by Hahn in 19Great Biography of a Great Woman Susan Suval This is a very interesting, well written biography of a very very interesting woman. I first encountered Emily Hahn as a source for the new novel, The Piano Teacher. China to Me, written by Hahn in 1944 was a source for Janice Lee, writer of The Piano Teacher. I checked that book out of the library and was enthralled with the experiences of Hahn. That led me to this biography. Truly a person of history that should not be forgotten.. Great Biography of a Great Woman Susan Suval This is a very interesting, well written biography of a very very interesting woman. I first encountered Emily Hahn as a source for the new novel, The Piano Teacher. China to Me, written by Hahn in 1944 was a source for Janice Lee, writer of The Piano Teacher. I checked that book out of the library and was enthralled with the experiences of Hahn. That led me to this biography. Truly a person of history that should not be forgotten.. was a source for Janice Lee, writer of The Piano Teacher. I checked that book out of the library and was enthralled with the experiences of Hahn. That led me to this biography. Truly a person of history that should not be forgotten.. "Heady Haphazard Biography" according to Lynn Nelson. Infectious character Emily "Mickey" Hahn is a screen ready life story of a feminist before her time and a 'thumping good read'
Known as 'Mickey' to her friends, Emily Hahn traveled across the country dressed as a boy in the 192Os; worked as a Harvey Girl in Taos, New Mexico; 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; became an opium addict; had an affair and an illegitimate child with the head of the British Secret Service in Hong Kong just before the outbreak of World War II; was involved in underground relief work in occupied Hong Kong; and moved back to the United States and became a pioneer in the fields of environmentalism and wildlife preservation before her death last year. Mickey Hahn also wrote hundreds of articles and short stories fo