Emily Kimbrough

Emily Kimbrough (October 23, 1899 – February 10, 1989) was an American author and journalist.

Biography Emily Kimbrough was born in Muncie, Indiana. 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 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, a publication of Marshall Fields & Co., as well as managing editor at the Ladies Home Journal in 1926. She wrote a host of articles in Country Life, House & Garden, Travel, Reader's Digest, Saturday Review of Literature, and Parents magazines.

In 1952, she joined WCBS Radio. She died February 10, 1989, at her home in Manhattan. In 1957 The Eve Arden Show, 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" and that she had daughters and grandchildren. In a piece for the New Yorker called “It’s the Hospitality”, she mentions that she has twin daughters.