Emily Price was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1872. Her family was quite wealthy and she led a privileged life. In 1892, she married a prominent banker named Edwin Main Post. After divorcing him in 1905, she began to take up a career in writing. In 1922, she wrote the book that would make her a household name. Etiquette was considered the quintessential manual for public decorum and has since been updated to the point where the seventeenth edition was published in 2004. There is even an institute that bears her name dedicated to the preservation of manners and etiquette.
