Ida Clyde Clarke
American journalist, writer and suffragist
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Ida Clyde Clarke (nee Gallaher; March 24, 1878 in Meridian, Mississippi[1]–1956) was an American journalist, writer and suffragist.[2] "She was a prolific and multi-faceted writer, producing works of both fiction and non-fiction studies of community organization and feminism".[3]
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Life
In 1920, she founded a monthly magazine The Independent Woman, editing it until 1921.[4]
She was a contributing editor to Pictorial Review and founded its US$5,000 annual award for women of achievement.[5]
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.[6]
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