Emily Kimbrough
Emily Kimbrough | |
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Born | Muncie, Indiana | 23 October 1899
Died | 10 February 1989 New York City | (aged 89)
Occupation | Writer |
Emily Kimbrough (October 23, 1899 – February 10, 1989) was an American author and journalist.[1]
Biography
Emily Kimbrough was born in
Kimbrough's journalistic career included an editor post at Fashions of the Hour, managing editorship at the
Kimbrough's Through Charley's Door (published 1952) is an autobiographical narrative of her experiences in Marshall Field's Advertising Bureau. Hired in November 1923 as the researcher and writer for the department store's quarterly catalog, Fashions of the Hour, Kimbrough was later promoted to editor of the publication. In 1926, she was recruited by Barton Curry with Ladies' Home Journal, and left Marshall Field's to become Ladies' Home Journal's fashion editor, a position she held until 1929. Between 1929 and 1952, Kimbrough was a freelance writer, with articles published in
Bibliography
- Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (with Cornelia Otis Skinner, 1942)
- We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood (1943)
- How Dear to My Heart (1944)
- ...It Gives Me Great Pleasure (1948)
- The Innocents from Indiana (1950)
- Through Charley's Door (1952)
- Forty Plus and Fancy Free (1954)
- So Near and Yet So Far (1955)
- Water, Water, Everywhere (1956)
- And a Right Good Crew (1958)
- Pleasure by the Busload (1961)
- Forever Old, Forever New (1964)
- Floating Island (1968), a description of a two-week voyage in France from Samoisa to Montbard via rivers and canals, using a converted barge called the Palinurus
- Now and Then (1972)
- Time Enough (1974)
- Better than Oceans (1976)
Books adapted for television
In 1950
Personal life
In the book Floating Island, Kimbrough mentions that she had kept her "unmarried name professionally" [6] and that she had daughters and grandchildren. In a piece for the New Yorker [7] called “It’s the Hospitality”, she mentions that she has twin daughters.
References
- ^ "KIMBROUGH, Emily | Novelguide". Archived from the original on 2011-10-12. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
- ^ a b "Emily Kimbrough". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-06-10.
- ^ a b Hays, Constance L. (11 February 1989). "Emily Kimbrough, 90, Magazine Editor and Popular Author". The New York Times.
- ISBN 978-0-345-49773-4. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- ISBN 978-0-7864-6812-6. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
- ^ Floating Island by Emily Kimbrough, Harper & Row, 1968, p. 27
- ^ 10/9/1948 New Yorker