Ernestine gilbreth carey biography of rory gilmore obituary

She was the daughter of Frank B. The third oldest of twelve children eleven of whom lived to adulthood , Gilbreth grew up in Montclair, New Jersey , in an unconventional household.

Carey was best known for collaborating with her brother Frank on the lightly humorous novel Cheaper by the Dozen.

In , Gilbreth graduated from Smith College as an English major. Gilbreth Carey found work as a buyer and manager for Macy's in She worked there until , when her family moved to Manhasset on Long Island. Carey immersed herself in the community and spent more time with her children, but soon realized she needed something more to do and began writing, drafting a "fact-based" draft of a novel about her childhood.

When her brother Frank, Jr. He tightened the prose and injected more humor. Cheaper by the Dozen was published in and was adapted as an eponymous film. The pair followed up with a successful sequel, Belles on Their Toes , which was adapted as an eponymous film. Because they had shared their stories-and their lives-in the successful novels, Ernestine and Frank, Jr.

Gilbreth Carey would go on to publish three more novels during the s, all semi-autobiographical: Jumping Jupiter , Rings around Us , an account of the events that happened from the night she met her future husband, to the night the two watched their daughter dance the Charleston as a high school freshman, [ 3 ] and Giddy Moment , though none of them would come close to the popularity of Cheaper by the Dozen.

Ernestine Moller Gilbreth was born in New York City on April 5, She was the daughter of Frank B. and Lillian (Moller) Gilbreth, early scientific management experts and early 20th-century pioneers of time and motion study and what would now be called organizational behavior.

Thereafter Carey's career as a writer stalled and she was never able to find a publisher for her last two novels, As Silver is Tried s and Razzle Dazzle s. After her mother died in , Carey became the primary family historian, especially interested in securing the legacy of her two parents, particularly that of her mother whose impressive career as an engineer spanned more than four decades after the death of Carey's father.

From the s until shortly before her death in , Carey researched and wrote multiple drafts of various versions of biographical treatments of both her parents and her mother.