Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr.

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Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. (born March 17, 1911 in Plainfield , New Jersey , † February 18, 2001 in Charleston , South Carolina ) was an American journalist and writer . He was next to his sister Ernestine Gilbreth Carey , the second author of Cheaper By The Dozen ( Cheaper by the Dozen ) and its sequel From children are people ( Belles on Their Toes ).

He also wrote Time Out for Happiness and Ancestors of the Dozen .

Life

Born in Plainfield , New Jersey, the fifth child (and first son) of the twelve children of time and movement management pioneers Frank Gilbreth, Sr. and Lillian Moller Gilbreth , he grew up on the family's estate in Montclair , New Jersey. Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. was a journalist whose memories of his life with his father Cheaper by the Dozen ( Cheaper by the Dozen ) 1948 was a bestseller. 1950 came out a successful movie with the same title , of which 2003 a remake was released under the same title .

Working life

Cheaper by the Dozen was filmed twice and was largely autobiographical . He also wrote about his own life as a father and the baby boom after World War II. He also wrote often about members of his family. In his later years, he moved to Charleston , South Carolina , where he continued to work as a journalist, writer, and newspaper manager. Under his pseudonym Ashley Cooper , he wrote a long-running column for the Charleston Post Courier , which was published until 1993.

Private life

Gilbreth was married twice: first to Elizabeth Cauthen until her death in 1954 and then from 1955 to 2001 to Mary Pringle Manigault. He had three children, one from his first marriage, Elizabeth G. Cantler, who retired as editor of The Post and Courier, and two from his second marriage (Edward M. Gilbreth and Rebecca G. Herres.)

Gilbreth died on a Sunday in Charleston, South Carolina, where he had lived the last fifty years of his life, at the age of 89. Gilbreth also owned a house in Nantucket , Massachusetts .

Works

  • Cheaper by the dozen ( Cheaper by the Dozen , 1948, ISBN 0-06-008460-X ), with Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
  • Cheerful life confession ( I'm a Lucky Guy , 1951)
  • Children become people ( Belles on Their Toes , 1952 ISBN 0-553-25605-X ) with Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
  • Held's Angels , with John Held (illustrator), 1952
  • Innside Nantucket , 1954
  • What a Woman ( Time Out for Happiness , 1971, ISBN 0-690-82517-X )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maj. Frank B. Gilbreth. , Washington Post . June 15, 1924. Retrieved July 8, 2008. 
  2. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Saxon: Frank Gilbreth Jr., 89, Author Of 'Cheaper by the Dozen' , New York Times . February 20, 2001. Retrieved July 9, 2008. "Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr., a journalist whose life-with-father memoir Cheaper by the Dozen became a best seller and a popular movie of the same title, died on Sunday in Charleston , SC, where he had lived for the last 50 years. He was 89 and also had a home in Nantucket, Mass. " 
  3. ^ Frank B. Gilbreth Jr .; Co-Wrote 'Cheaper by the Dozen' , Los Angeles Times . February 23, 2001. Retrieved July 8, 2008. "Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., 81, coauthor of" Cheaper by the Dozen "and its sequel," Belles on Their Toes. "In South Carolina, Gilbreth was known for his popular column "Doing the Charleston," which he wrote under the pen name Ashley Cooper from the late 1940s to 1993, in the Charleston Post and Courier. " 
  4. ↑ The Gilbreth Network - In Memory: Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.
personal data
SURNAME Gilbreth, Frank Bunker Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Plainfield , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2001
Place of death Charleston , South Carolina