Tarbell, Ida M[inerva]

Tarbell, Ida M[inerva]( 1857–1944),
Pennsylvania author, editor, and lecturer, first became known as a leader of the muckraking movement for her articles in McClure's Magazine. From some of these was gathered her sensational exposé The History of the Standard Oil Company (2 vols., 1904). For the same magazine she had earlier written a Life of Abraham Lincoln (2 vols., 1900). She is the author of other books on Lincoln, The Nationalizing of Business, 1878–1898 (1936), and an autobiography, All in the Day's Work (1939).