Irene Corbally Kuhn

Assigned to Adventure

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Produktbeschreibung

The 21st Century has turned the journalistic world upside down, but the 19th and most of the 20th Century could be defined as the Golden Age of Journalism, a time when reporters were respected, even glamorous. Many went on to more famous careers as authors. Add to that list Irene Corbally Kuhn. With an illustrious career spanning from 1920 through the 1980s she was a ground-breaking journalist working in a male-dominated profession and world. She was a trail blazer because she demonstrated an uncanny ability to write not just stories assumed best written by women, but aggressively looked for those normally held by her male counterparts. Assigned to Adventure is Irene's personal story of her career through 1937. Originally published in 1938, this is a republished second edition with a foreword by Irene's granddaughter, Heather Corbally Bryant, a writing instructor at Wellesley College and an author/poet of her own right. Read it for insight into what it took for a woman to be successful in that era. Read it for fun with the many humorous and engaging stories of Irene's life as a reporter for world class newspapers such as the New York Daily News, the Paris Tribune, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, the New York World-Telegram and Shanghai's China Press which then transitioned into a career as a Hollywood screenwriter and radio broadcaster for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, NBC, and CBS. Through it all, you'll quickly see that this is a woman for all ages, one to be admired by the young and old, male or female, dreamers or realists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Ardent Writer Press, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781938667985
• ISBN-10: 1938667980
• Artikelnr.: 52531289

Autorenporträt

IRENE CORBALLY KUHN was born in New York City in 1898. She attended Marymount College and received a fellowship to Columbia University. In 1920, she began her career as a journalist with the Syracuse Herald and the New York Daily News. From there she went to Paris where she was fashion editor for the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune. In 1922 she moved to Shanghai where she became one of the first women foreign correspondents in China. She wrote for the China Press, an American newspaper. In China she met and married Bert Kuhn. A year later, in 1923, they moved to Hawaii where they had a daughter, Rene Kuhn, before returning to China. During this time, Irene Kuhn was a correspondent for the International News Service. Bert Kuhn died suddenly in 1926, while Irene Kuhn was on leave in Canada with their daughter. She moved to New York City where she was a feature writer for The Daily News. In 1929 she returned to Hawaii to work for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. She then went to Hollywood for two and a half years to work on movie scripts for several film corporations. She moved back to New York and worked for the New York World Telegram and was managing editor of The New York Woman. In 1939 Kuhn wrote her memoirs in a book titled, Assigned to Adventure. During the same year she helped found the Overseas Press Club of America. Kuhn worked for NBC from 1940-1949, working as a war correspondent in the China-Burma-India Theater. Her radio broadcasts included programs such as, "Irene Kuhn's Feature Page," and later, "The Kuhns," which she hosted with her daughter, Rene Kuhn Bryant. In the 1950s, she wrote several articles about communism and socialism in America for publications such as The American Legion and American Mercury. In 1953 she co-authored the book, The Enemy Within with Raymond J. de Jaegher. She wrote a syndicated column, "It's My Opinion," from 1953-1969. She continued writing articles and columns throughout the 1970s and 1980s, publishing in magazines such as Gourmet and Travel. Irene Kuhn died in 1995.