Ishbel Ross

Ishbel Ross (December 15, 1895 – September 21, 1975) was an American newspaper reporter, novelist, and nonfiction writer.

[2] She 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.

[3] At the instigation of the New-York Tribune's city editor, Stanley Walker, she also began writing nonfiction.

Her first book, Ladies of the Press (1936), was the first formal history of women in journalism, examining the various roles women have played in print journalism, with a focus on notable journalists like Marguerite Martyn, Margaret Fuller, Nellie Bly, and Dorothy Dix.

[4] 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.