Lucia Isabella Runkle (née Gilbert; August 20, 1844 – 1922), was an editorial writer and contributor to the New York Tribune and Harper's.
She moved to New York City and for many years she was an editorial writer and contributor to the New-York Tribune, in which she published a series of articles on cooking, treated from an artistic standpoint.
For ten years, Runkle was the literary adviser of Harper & Brothers, her work including French and German manuscripts and books, as well as English.
In 1893, she undertook, with Charles Dudley Warner and others, the enormous labor which is represented in the thirty volumes of Library of the World's Best Literature.
Her second marriage, in 1869, was to Cornelius Runkle, a customs official and lawyer for the New-York Tribune.