Born in Baltimore on October 27, 1872 (some sources give October 3, 1873), Emily Price was educated in private schools in New York City, among them Miss Graham╒s Finishing School for Young Ladies. A popular debutante, she was feted by Ward McAllister, the social arbiter who coined the term ╥the Four Hundred.╙ In June 1892 she married Edwin M. Post, a banker, from whom she was divorced in 1906. At the turn of the century financial circumstances compelled her to begin to write, and she produced newspaper articles on architecture and interior decoration, stories and serials for such magazines as Harper╒s, Scribner╒s, and the Century, and light novels, including Flight of the Moth, 1904, Purple and Fine Linen, 1906, Woven in the Tapestry, 1908, The Title Market, 1909, and The Eagle╒s Feather, 1910.
At the request of her publisher Post brought out Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home in 1922. Immediately popular, her charming and lively presentation differed from other guides to manners in being directed to popular audiences rather than merely to the upper classes. It laid down fundamental rules that remained unchanged through the book╒s many printings, although she took care to remain abreast of the times in dealing with broad changes in society. Proper behavior, she believed, was a manifestation of common sense and consideration of other people. Sections of the first edition reflected the period of her own upbringing (╥Chaperons and Other Conventions╙) and were later modified to reflect changing customs (╥The Vanishing Chaperon and Other New Conventions╙). She added to later editions guides to television, telephone, and airplane etiquette. Later retitled Etiquette╤the Blue Book of Social Usage, her guide went through 10 editions and 90 printings before her death.
After 1931 Post spoke on radio programs and wrote a column on good taste for the Bell Syndicate; it appeared daily in some 200 newspapers after 1932. Her other books included Parade, a novel, 1925, How to Behave Though a Debutante, 1928, The Personality of a House, 1930, Children are People, 1940, The Emily Post Cook Book, with Edwin M. Post, Jr., 1949, and Motor Manners, 1950. She died in New York City on September 25, 1960.
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