Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Ernestine Moller Gilbreth Carey (April 5, 1908 - November 4, 2006) was an American author. Born in New York City, 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...