Emily Yahr is proud of her Pirate heritage.
"My ancestors roamed the Seven Seas looking for gold doubloons and rare spices and silks from the Orient that they could swipe from other ships, and then make their victims walk the plank. My progenitors became so infamous for their wholesale thieving that our last name became a byword among Pirates and Pirate wannabees. After all, who hasn't heard someone, somewhere, growl 'Yahr, matey' when they want to impersonate a buccaneer?"
When she worked at the Lexington Herald-Leader she was known for the particular care with which she placed her commas, asterisks, and apostrophes. She was often heard to say: "There is more mischief in a misplaced semicolon than in a quart of whisky!"
Prior to joining the Washington Post she worked at USA Today as their kapok reviewer. Her columns have been collected into a book, entitled "Excelsior is My Sister," which was on the Ladies Home Journal short list for six months.
Yahr joined the Washington Post in 2008 and immediately began building a reputation for hard-hitting style section pieces. Her prose has been likened to 'velvet sandpaper.' Her series on Velcro high heels led to legislation in several states banning the use of pesticides near bowling alleys.
She calls Cleveland her Pittsburgh.
She graduated from the University of Maryland at the age of sixteen, and took an advanced degree at the Winnemucca School of Mines before she could legally vote. Her interests include scrimshaw, hot plate repair, and flying inflatable latex gloves.
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"I wouldn't want to be in her shoes."
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