Emily Kimbrough (1899-1989) is an American author and journalist. [1]
Emily Kimbrough was born in Muncie, Indiana on October 23, 1899. In 1921 she graduated from Bryn Mawr College and went on a trip to Europe with her friend Cornelia Otis Skinner. The two friends co-authored the memoir Our Hearts Were Young and Gay based on their European adventures. The success of the book as a New York Times best seller lead to Kimbrough and Skinner going to Hollywood to work on a script for the movie, Our Hearts. Kimbrough wrote about the experience in We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood. [2]
Kimbrough's journalistic career included an editor post at Fashions of the Hour, managing editorship at the Ladies Home Journal and a host of articles in Country Life, House & Garden, Travel, Readers' Digest, Saturday Review of Literature, and Parents magazines. [2]