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Emily Hahn
1905–1997
An adventurous reporter and prolific storyteller, she turned a life of long journeys and unconventional choices into books and magazine pieces that brought distant places vividly to readers. Best known for decades of work in The New Yorker, she wrote with curiosity, wit, and a taste for the unexpected.
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Beginners Luck
by Emily Hahn
About the author
Born in St. Louis in 1905, Emily Hahn became one of the most wide-ranging American writers of the 20th century. She wrote more than 50 books along with a large body of articles and short fiction, and she was a longtime contributor to The New Yorker over many decades.
Hahn was known for an unusually adventurous life as well as for her writing. Accounts of her career describe extensive travels in Africa and Asia, and her work helped introduce many Western readers to places and lives they knew little about. She was often remembered as an independent, unconventional figure whose journalism and memoir blended sharp observation with personal candor.
She died in 1997, leaving behind a body of work that ranges across travel writing, biography, fiction, and memoir. Her reputation has endured as that of a fearless, curious writer who made her own path and wrote about the world in a lively, approachable way.