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Nora Waln’s House of Exile, Penguin Edition 1933

Posted: July 7th, 2014 | No Comments »

Nora Waln was one the first of the ‘girl reporters’ to head to China and once shared a house in with Edna Lee Booker (who I’ve blogged about previously). While in China Waln worked on her novels while reporting for the Atlantic Monthly.  Her reporting on Mongolia was especially interesting for the times when few went there.

Came across a 1933 Penguin edition of her China memoir The House of Exile the other day…

Nora Waln - house of exile cover



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