Margaret Mead (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Margaret Mead finished her undergraduate work at DePauw University and Barnard College and began graduate work at Columbia University in 1923. She was a student and lifelong friend of Ruth Benedict, another great American anthropologist. Even before finishing her Ph.D., Mead published what became a perennial best-seller, Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization.
Mead’s busy professional schedule and her absorption in her many projects left little time for family life. Her three marriages—one to a minister and two to...
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