Emily Kimbrough (October 23, 1899 – February 10, 1989) was an American

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Biography

Emily Kimbrough was born in Muncie, Indiana. In 1921 she graduated from

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and went on a trip to Europe with her friend

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. The two friends co-authored the memoir ''

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay ''Our Hearts Were Young and Gay'' is a book by actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbrough, published in 1942. The book presents a description of their European tour in the 1920s, when they were fresh out of college from Bryn M ...

'' based on their European adventures. The success of the book as a ''New York Times'' best seller led to Kimbrough and Skinner going to Hollywood to work on a script for the movie version. Kimbrough wrote about the experience in ''We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood''. Kimbrough's journalistic career included an editor post at ''Fashions of the Hour'', managing editorship at the ''

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'' and a host of articles in '' Country Life'', '' House & Garden'', ''

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'' magazines. 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

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and Atlantic Monthly among others. In 1952, she joined WCBS Radio. She died February 10, 1989 at her home in Manhattan.

Bibliography

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'' (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 '' The Girls'', a short-lived television series based on her ''Our Hearts Were Young and Gay'' novel was telecast, with Mary Malone playing Kimbrough. In 1957 ''

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'', a television series based on Kimbrough's book ''It Gives Me Great Pleasure'', aired for one season.

Personal life

In the book ''Floating Island'', Kimbrough mentions that she had kept her "unmarried name professionally" ''Floating Island'' by Emily Kimbrough, Harper & Row, 1968, p. 27 and that she had daughters and grandchildren.

References

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