1. Emily "Mickey" Hahn was an American journalist and writer.
11 Facts About Emily Hahn
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Emily Hahn was born in St Louis, Missouri, on January 14,1905, as one of the six children of Isaac Newton Hahn, a dry goods salesman, and Hannah Hahn, a free-spirited suffragette.
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Emily Hahn gave her the entree that enabled her to write a biography of the famous Soong sisters, one of whom was married to Sun Yat-sen and another to Chiang Kai-shek.
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Emily Hahn was not interned since she had stated she was legally married to Shao Xunmei on a document, and therefore the Japanese treated her as, in the words of Taras Grescoe of The New Yorker, "an honorary Asian".
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Emily Hahn stated that Shao's wife approved of the document since it was a possible method of saving his press and that Shao had not been married "according to foreign law".
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Emily Hahn came back to see her the day before she was repatriated in 1943 and slapped her back.
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Emily Hahn did not fit into any of the usual categories" because she "moved effortlessly.
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Emily Hahn wrote her last book, Eve and the Apes, in 1988 when she was in her eighties.
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Emily Hahn reportedly went into her office at The New Yorker daily until just a few months before she died.
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Emily Hahn died on February 18,1997, at Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center in Manhattan.
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Emily Hahn was 92, and died from complication from her surgery for a shattered femur.