Ida Minerva Tarbell was an American writer, investigative journalist, biographer, and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was a pioneer of investigative... Wikipedia
Born: November 5, 1857, Amity Township, PA
Died: January 6, 1944 (age 86 years), Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, CT
Education: Allegheny College (1876–1880) and Titusville High School
Parents: Franklin Summer Tarbell and Esther Ann Tarbell
Books
The History of the Standard Oil Company
1904
All in the Day's Work
1939
The Business of Being a Woman
1912
Abraham Lincoln
1899
The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished, and Illustrated with Many Reproductions from Original Paintings, Photographs, Et Cetera
1895
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
1900