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.