Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr.

Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. (March 17, 1911 – February 18, 2001) was co-author of "Cheaper by the Dozen", "Belles on Their Toes", "Time Out for Happiness" and "Ancestors of the Dozen".

Biography

He was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, the fifth child (and first boy) of the twelve (12) children born to efficiency experts Frank Gilbreth, Sr. and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and grew up in the family home in Montclair, New Jersey. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Maj. Frank B. Gilbreth. |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/121737580.html?dids=121737580:121737580&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:FT&date=JUN+15%2C+1924&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Maj.+Frank+B.+Gilbreth.&pqatl=google |quote= |publisher=Washington Post |date=June 15, 1924 |accessdate=2008-07-08 ] cite news |first=Wolfgang |last=Saxon |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Frank Gilbreth Jr., 89, Author Of 'Cheaper by the Dozen' |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE3DB1F30F933A15751C0A9679C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22Frank+Gilbreth%2C+Jr.%22 |quote=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, S.C., where he had lived for the last 50 years. He was 89 and also had a home in Nantucket, Mass. |publisher=New York Times |date=February 20, 2001 |accessdate=2008-07-09 ] "Cheaper by the Dozen", which was made into two successful films, was largely autobiographical. He also wrote about fatherhood, in the post-WWII "baby boom". He also wrote often about family members. In his later years, he relocated to Charleston, South Carolina, where he went on to be a journalist, author and newspaper executive. Under nom de plume Ashley Cooper, he wrote a long-running column for the "Charleston Post Courier", which ran until 1993. Gilbreth was married twice, to Elizabeth Cauthen and then to Mary Pringle Manigault. He had three children. He died in 2001, aged 89, in in Charleston, South Carolina, where he had lived for the preceding half century. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.; Co-Wrote 'Cheaper by the Dozen' |url= |quote=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. |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=February 23, 2001 |accessdate=2008-07-08 ]

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