{"id":6691,"date":"2016-05-17T14:11:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T14:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lichen.csd.sc.edu\/sce\/entries\/gilbreth-frank-bunker-jr\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T20:04:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:04:17","slug":"gilbreth-frank-bunker-jr","status":"publish","type":"entry","link":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/gilbreth-frank-bunker-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer, newspaper columnist. Gilbreth was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, on March 17, 1911, the fifth child and eldest son of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, a pair of nationally known engineers and efficiency experts. After attending St. Johns College for a year, Gilbreth went on to the University of Michigan where he was editor of the university\u2019s newspaper, the <em>Michigan Daily. <\/em>He graduated in 1933 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then worked for the <em>New York Herald Tribune, <\/em>the <em>Charleston News and Courier, Buenos Aires Herald, <\/em>and the Associated Press. During World War II, Gilbreth served in the Pacific as a naval officer and aerial photographer. He left the navy as a lieutenant commander and was awarded a Bronze Star and two Air Medals for his service.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbreth is best known as the coauthor of <em>Cheaper by the Dozen. <\/em>Published in 1949, this book was Gilbreth\u2019s collaboration with his older sister, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, about their childhood as two of twelve children in a house managed like a factory. Translated into thirty languages, <em>Cheaper by the Dozen, <\/em>along with its sequel, <em>Belles on their Toes, <\/em>was a best seller and was made into a successful film. Subsequently, Gilbreth wrote several additional books, including <em>Innside Nantucket <\/em>(1954), about a family-run boarding house, and <em>Time Out for Happiness <\/em>(1971), a biography of his parents.<\/p>\n<p>In 1947 Gilbreth returned to Charleston and joined the staff of the <em>News and Courier. <\/em>For his popular column, \u201cDoing the Charleston,\u201d Gilbreth wrote under the pseudonym Ashley Cooper. The column became one of the longest running in American newspaper history. He also assembled a brief dictionary of \u201cCharlestonese,\u201d which amusingly discussed the port city\u2019s famous drawl. Selections from his column were published in <em>Ashley Cooper\u2019s Doing the Charleston <\/em>in 1993. Gilbreth also worked as assistant publisher of the paper and as vice president of Evening Post Publishing Company. The final \u201cDoing the Charleston\u201d ran in 1993, and in 1998 Gilbreth was named to the South Carolina Academy of Authors.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbreth was married to Elizabeth Cauthen from September 9, 1934, until her death in 1954, and to Mary Pringle Manigault from June 4, 1955 until the time of his death. He had a daughter from his first marriage and a son and a daughter from his second. Gilbreth died in Charleston on February 18, 2001, and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbreth, Frank B., Jr. <em>Ashley Cooper\u2019s Doing the Charleston. <\/em>Charleston, S.C.: Post and Courier, 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Rowe, Charles R. \u201cAuthor, Columnist Gilbreth Dies.\u201d Charleston <em>Post and Courier, <\/em>February 19, 2001, pp. 1A, 15A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer, newspaper columnist. 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