Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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Born in New York City to pioneering industrial-management consultants Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, she grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, and earned an English degree from Smith College in 1929. After a stint as a buyer and manager for Macy’s, she turned to writing in the mid-1940s, collaborating with her brother Frank Jr. on the fact-based novel that became Cheaper by the Dozen (1948); the book was… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources