'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. 'Frank Gilbreth Jr., 89, Author Of 'Cheaper by the Dozen''. Ashley Cooper's Doing the Charleston, 1993.Held's Angels, with John Held (illustrator), 1952.At the time, he also maintained the family home in Nantucket, Massachusetts, which his father had bought in 1921. Gilbreth died in 2001, aged 89, in Charleston, South Carolina, where he had lived for the preceding half century. Cantler), and then to Mary Pringle Manigault (1955-2001), with whom he had two children (Dr. Gilbreth was married twice, to Elizabeth Cauthen (until her death in 1954), with whom he had a daughter (Elizabeth G. On his own, he also wrote about fatherhood in the post- World War II 'baby boom', and about family members. He and his older sister, Ernestine, wrote the bestselling books Cheaper by the Dozen (1948 adapted as a 1950 film) and its sequel Belles on Their Toes (1950 adapted as a 1952 film), which were largely autobiographical. He retired from The Post and Courier in 2001, as assistant publisher and vice president.

In 1947, he relocated to Charleston, South Carolina, where he returned to The Post and Courier (the city's main daily newspaper), as an editorial writer and columnist under nom de plume Ashley Cooper, he wrote a long-running column, Doing the Charleston, which ran until 1993. Gilbreth graduated from the University of Michigan, where he served as editor of the college newspaper, The Michigan Daily.ĭuring World War II, he served as a naval officer in the South Pacific, participated in three invasions in the Admiralty Islands and the Philippines, and was decorated with two air medals and a bronze star. and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and grew up in the family home in Montclair, New Jersey. Gilbreth was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, the fifth child (and first boy) of the 12 children born to efficiency experts Frank Gilbreth Sr.

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