How Did the World Influence Her Writing?

Isabelle Patterson was born in 1886 on a tiny island on the north side of Lake Huron. She grew up on the American frontier and could remember seeing her first light bulb at 16. In sometimes the 1920s she worked as a secretary to the sculptor Gutsen Borglum who is best known for carving Mount Rushmore. After moving to New York became a columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, where she wrote a weekly column about the publishing industry. The God of the Machine by Isabelle Patterson (1943) has been called one of the most influential free market economics works ever written.