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Scottish-born American journalist and writer.

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Name variations: Isabel Rae; Ishbella Rae. Ulysses S. Woodrow Wilson Born in Sutherlandshire, Scotland, in , the second of two children, Ishbel Ross knew from an early age that she wanted to be a writer. She was a voracious, catholic reader, and her dreams of becoming a writer were fed by the glimpses she caught of her neighbor Rudyard Kipling , whom she often saw walking with his children.

Though she wanted to be a reporter, she had to take other jobs before anyone would assign her a story. The Canadian Food Board hired her as a publicist, and the library at the Toronto Daily News provided her with employment. Finally, suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst succumbed to her requests for an interview. Ross proclaimed that she "was never a great suffrage sympathizer" but acknowledged her debt to Pankhurst for providing her with the first step toward a long and successful career of writing about no table women.

The number of male reporters fighting overseas in World War I made it easier for women to enter the male-dominated newspaper world. Furthermore, Ross and other women reporters received assignments for front-page stories; on most other papers, these were always given to men.

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She covered fires, explosions, and prize fights, and interviewed immigrants and college students. Ross was especially interested in aviation, and she often waited all night at airports for the early trans-Atlantic flights to arrive. Lindbergh on his triumphant return from the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.