Ernestine Moller Gilbreth Carey | |
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Born | April 5, 1908 New York, New York |
Died | November 4, 2006 Fresno, California |
(aged 98)
Education | Smith College |
Known for | co-author, Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes |
Spouse | Charles Everett Carey |
Parents | Lillian Moller Gilbreth Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. |
Relatives | Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr., brother |
Ernestine Moller Gilbreth Carey[1] (April 5, 1908 - November 4, 2006) was an American author.
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Born in New York City,[1] she was the daughter of Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Frank Bunker Gilbreth, early 20th-century pioneers of time and motion study and what would now be called organizational behavior. She grew up in Montclair, New Jersey.
The upbringing of the twelve Gilbreth children was chronicled in the successful, comic memoir Cheaper by the Dozen (1948, adapted in a 1950 film). The book, as well as a sequel titled Belles on Their Toes (1952), was written by Carey with one of her younger brothers, Frank.
Carey was a graduate of Smith College and worked as a department store buyer and manager for fourteen years. In 1930, she married Charles Everett Carey, Sr., with whom she had two children, Lillian Carey Barley (b. 1938) and Charles Everett Carey, Jr., (b. 1942). She was the author of several other books, including Rings Around Us, an account of the events that happened from the night she met her future husband, "Chick" Carey, to the night the two watched their daughter dance the Charleston as a high school freshman. Carey resided in Reedley, California.
She died of natural causes in Fresno, California, aged 98, on November 4, 2006.[2]