Ida Clyde Clarke

Ida Clyde Clarke (nee Gallaher; 1878–1956) 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.

She was a contributing editor to Pictorial Review and founded its $5,000 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.

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