Ida Clyde Clarke
# 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
