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FRESNO, Calif., Nov 6, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, whose personal memoir "Cheaper by the Dozen" influenced several motion pictures, has died in Fresno, Calif., at the age of 98.
Having detailed her childhood growing up in a family with 12 children, Carey parlayed the success of her 1948 memoir into a series of successive novels such as "Rings Around Us" and "Jumping Jupiter," said The New York Times.
Her most acclaimed work, that she co-wrote with her younger brother Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr., remained "Cheaper," and it eventually found its way to the big screen in both 1950 and again in 2003.
The Times reported that Carey had completed a new memoir in July, yet had kept its details a secret for fear of "bad luck."
The acclaimed author is survived by two children, Lillian Barley and Charles E. Carey, her brothers, Frederick Gilbreth and Robert Gilbreth, six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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