Edna Yost (November 16, 1889, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania - September 10, 1971, New York City) wrote articles, poems, short stories, and books.
[1][5] In 1944, Yost worked with Lillian Moller Gilbreth, the first woman engineering professor at Purdue University, to research and write about improving the environment for people with disabilities.
Normal Lives was described as "a great help in laying a general foundation for the basic adjustment of a disabled individual".
[7] Yost also went on to write a biography of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, efficiency experts who applied scientific management techniques to a wide variety of tasks.
[3] Yost is best remembered for her collections of biographies, focusing on the lives of men and women in the fields of science, nursing, and technology.
[3] She wrote that she herself had felt the lack of role models when she was a young woman, at a time when little if any biographical material was available about women.
Queens and raving beauties decorated the pages of some of the books I read [as a child], but such women as these were born to fame.