Ishbel Ross was an American newspaper reporter, novelist, and nonfiction writer.
10 Facts About Ishbel Ross
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Ishbel Ross was born on December 15,1895, in Bonar Bridge, Scotland, one of six children of David Ross and Grace Ross.
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Ishbel Ross graduated from the Tain Royal Academy in 1916 and then emigrated to Canada, where she took a job as a publicist for the Canadian Food Board.
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Ishbel Ross started out as a clerk on the Toronto Daily News and rose quickly to become a bylined reporter.
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Ishbel Ross left the Toronto Daily News in 1919 for a job as a general assignment reporter at the New-York Tribune, becoming the second woman reporter to be hired for this paper's city room.
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Ishbel Ross left the paper the following year to concentrate on novel writing, publishing four more during her lifetime.
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Ishbel Ross identified more than 300 women editors and publishers working at papers throughout the United States.
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Ishbel Ross wrote some twenty nonfiction books, many of which were lives of famous women, ranging from the wives of American presidents to physician Elizabeth Blackwell, American Red Cross founder Clara Barton, and Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow.
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Ishbel Ross's books were considered well-researched though written in a journalistic rather than academic style.
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Ishbel Ross died in New York City on September 21,1975, of unknown causes, surviving her husband by 12 years.