Ida Clyde Clarke (nee Gallaher; March 24, 1878 in Meridian, MississippiCLARKE, Ida Clye (Mrs. Thomas H. Clarke), in Who's Who in America (vol. 14, 1926 edition); p. 463–1956) was an American journalist, writer and suffragist. "She was a prolific and multi-faceted writer, producing works of both fiction and non-fiction studies of community organization and feminism".
Life In 1920, she founded a monthly magazine The Independent Woman, editing it until 1921.The magazine was renamed National Business Woman in 1956.
She was a contributing editor to Pictorial Review and founded its annual award for women of achievement.
In 1932, her son, Haden Clarke, was a ghostwriter engaged to write the memoirs of the aviator Jessie Miller. After a relationship ensued between Clarke and Miller, Clarke was killed by a gunshot wound to the head. The gun belonged to Miller's partner Bill Lancaster, who also admitted forging suicide notes, but Lancaster was acquitted of murder charges.Chrystopher J. Spicer, The Flying Adventures of Jessie Keith "Chubbie" Miller: The Southern Hemisphere's First International Aviatrix, McFarland & Company, 2017.
Works All about Nashville, a complete historical guide book to the city, 1912 Record no. 33, 1915 American women and the world war, 1918 The little democracy: a text-book on community organization, 1918. (ed.) Women of 1923, International, 1923. (Subsequent editions appeared in 1924, 1925 and 1928.) Uncle Sam needs a wife, 1925 (with A. O Bowden) Tomorrow's Americans: a practical study in student self-government, 1930 Men that wouldn't stay dead: twenty-six authentic ghost stories, 1936
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External links My Suffrage Creed by Ida Clyde Clarke American Women and the World War by Ida Clyde Clarke