Lorine Livingston Pruette, 1896-1977

Lorine Livingston Pruette, psychologist, writer and lecturer, was born November 3, 1896, in Millersburg, Tennessee, the daughter of Oscar Davis and Eula (Miller) Pruette. She grew up in Chattanooga and attended Chattanooga High School, graduating in 1915. She received a B.S. degree from the University of Chattanooga (1918), an M.A. from Clark University (1920), and a Ph.D. from Columbia University (1924), with a dissertation entitled Women and Leisure, A Study of Social Waste .

An early feminist, as seen in her writing, LLP kept her maiden name after her marriage to Douglas Fryer in 1920. LLP and Fryer collaborated on several studies and articles before their divorce in 1932.

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