Emily Holmes Coleman was an American-born writer and a lifelong compulsive diary keeper.
10 Facts About Emily Coleman
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Emily Coleman wrote a single novel, The Shutter of Snow.
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Emily Coleman was born in Oakland, California, on January 22,1899.
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Emily Coleman worked as a secretary to Emma Goldman for a year, while Goldman was writing her autobiography Living My Life.
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Emily Coleman continued to live in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.
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From 1944 until her death in 1974, Emily Coleman devoted herself to religious life.
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Emily Coleman published her only book, The Shutter of Snow in 1930, which fictionalized her experiences as a patient in a mental hospital.
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The diaries Emily Coleman kept as an American expatriate in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, and in England in the 1940s through the 1960s, are valuable for chronicling her relationships with literary friends such as Djuna Barnes, who wrote much of her novel Nightwood while staying with Emily Coleman and others at Peggy Guggenheim's country manor, Hayford Hall.
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Emily Coleman wrote about John Ferrar Holms, Antonia White, Dylan Thomas, Phyllis Jones, George Barker, Gay Taylor, and a number of others.
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Emily Coleman was always striving for something in her diaries, for effectiveness as a writer, for a lucid mind, for passion in love, for a seemingly spiritual grace.