Irma Rombauer
Irma Rombauer is the author of The Joy of Cooking. It is one of the world's most-published cookbooks having been in print continuously since 1936. She privately published it in 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri. It was illustrated by her daughter Marion Rombauer, an art teacher at local private school John Burroughs School. The Rombauers self-published early editions of the book; it was picked up by a commercial printing house, the Bobbs-Merrill Company, in 1936.