Benedict, Ruth Fulton

Born at New York City as Ruth Fulton. B.A. from Vassar College, 1909. Taught at two girls' schools in California 1911-1914, then married a hearing man. Ph.D. from Columbia University, 1923; professor of anthropology at Columbia University. Wrote poetry under the pen name of Anne Singleton. Died in New York City. Biographies include Ruth Benedict: Stranger in This Land by Margaret M. Caffrey (1989); Ruth Benedict: Patterns of a Life by Judith Schachter Modell (1983); Ruth Benedict: a Humanist in Anthropology, by Margaret Mead (1974); and Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women by Hilary Lapsley. Some of Benedict's anthropological writings are available in Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict, edited by Margaret Mead (1959).