This is the 2000 edition of Emily of Emerald Hill, the third edition of this play, signed by the playwright on the cover of the book. Stella Kon is an award-winning Singapore playwright whose most important work was the 1983 one-woman play, Emily of Emerald Hill. She is also a descendent of two prominent Peranakan philanthropists, Tan Tock Seng and Dr Lim Boon Keng