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Emily Hahn

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born

in St. Louis, Missouri, The United States

January 14, 1905

died

February 18, 1997

gender

female

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction

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"Mickey" Hahn was called "a forgotten American literary treasure" by The New Yorker magazine; she was the author of 52 books and more than 180 articles and stories. Her father was a hardware salesman and her mother a suffragette. She and her siblings were brought up to be independent and to think for themselves and she became the first woman to take a degree in mining engineering from the University of Wisconsin. She went on to study mineralogy at Columbia and anthropology at Oxford, working in between as an oil geologist, a teacher and a guide in New Mexico before she arrived in New York where she took up writing seriously. In 1935 she traveled to China for a short visit and ended up by staying nine years in the Far East. She loved living...more

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Emily Hahn's Books

Average rating: 3.86 · 264 ratings · 59 reviews · 34 distinct works · Similar authors

	No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the Century by Emily Hahn, Ken Cuthbertson (Introduction), Sheila McGrath (Foreword) 4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	China to Me 4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1944 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Soong Sisters 3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1941 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leonardo da Vinci by Emily Hahn, Mimi Korach (Illustrator) 3.12 of 5 stars 3.12 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1956 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mary, Queen of Scots (World Landmark Books #6) 3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1953	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cooking of China by Emily Hahn, Time-Life Editors 3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North by Emily Hahn, Ken Cuthbertson (Editor), Anneke Van Woudenberg (Foreword) 2.88 of 5 stars 2.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1922 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fractured Emerald: Ireland 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1971 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recipes: The Cooking of China by Emily Hahn, Time-Life Editors 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1968	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eve and the Apes 4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said, "Why, it is life.”
― Emily Hahn, Congo Solo; Misadventures Two Degrees North

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“The Bohemian who tires of life, who gives up by retirement into insamity or suicide, is not necessarily one who had failed in what he wants to express.”
― Emily Hahn, Romantic Rebels: An Informal History of Bohemianism in America

tags: american-literature

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“There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England. But fellow students had complained that Irish living together in large numbers sooner or later got noisy and violent and there was no handling them. Accordingly, the universities imposed a quota system on Irishman, and decreed that those admitted must be scattered around among non-compatriots: exclusively Irish halls of residence were banned.”
― Emily Hahn, Fractured Emerald: Ireland

tags: history, ireland

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