Lynd, Helen Merrell, 1896-1982

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Dates:
Birth 1896
Death 1892
Birth 1896-03-17
Death 1982-01-30
Americans
English

Biographical notes:

Epithet: wife of R S Lynd, American author

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000798.0x00001f

Lynd (1896-1982) was on the Sarah Lawrence faculty from 1929 to 1965; from 1924 to 1929 she was Assistant Director and Research Associate of the Middletown Studies. She was married to Robert S. Lynd.

From the description of Papers, 1904-1980, 1919-1980 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155542711

Educator, writer; interviewee married Robert S. Lynd; interviewee d. 1982.

From the description of Reminiscences of Helen Merrell Lynd : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309738427

From the description of Reminiscences of Helen Merrell Lynd : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309738403

Biographical Note

Robert Staughton Lynd

1892, Sept. 26 Born, New Albany, Ind. 1914 B.A. Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 1914 1918 Editor, Publishers' Weekly 1919 Manager, advertising and publicity, Charles Scribner's Sons 1920 Assistant publisher, B. W. Huebsch, Inc., and the Freeman 1921 Married Helen Merrell (died 1982) 1922 Missionary and writer, Elk Basin, Wyo., oil fields 1923 B.D., Union Theological Seminary, New York, N.Y. 1923 1926 Director, Small City Study, Institute of Social and Religious Research 1926 1927 Assistant director, Division of Educational Research, Commonwealth Fund 1927 1931 Assistant to chairman, later permanent secretary, Social Sciences Research Council 1929 Published with Helen Merrell Lynd Middletown, a Study in Contemporary American Culture. New York: Harcourt, Brace 1931 Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 1931 1960 Professor of sociology, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 1937 Published with Helen Merrell Lynd Middletown in Transition; a Study in Cultural Conflicts. New York: Harcourt, Brace 1939 Published Knowledge for What? The Place of Social Science in American Culture. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 1970, Nov. 1 Died, New York, N.Y.

Helen Merrell Lynd

1896, Mar. 17 Born, La Grange, Ill. 1919 B.A., Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. 1921 M.A., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Married Robert Staughton Lynd (died 1970) 1929 Published with Robert Staughton Lynd Middletown, a Study in Contemporary American Culture. New York: Harcourt, Brace 1929 1964 Engaged in research and writing Lecturer, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y, and Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y. 1937 Published with Robert Staughton Lynd Middletown in Transition; a Study in Cultural Conflicts. New York: Harcourt, Brace 1944 Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 1945 Published England in the Eighteen-Eighties: Toward a Social Basis for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press Published Field Work in College Education. New York: Columbia University Press 1958 Published On Shame and the Search for Identity. New York: Harcourt, Brace 1965 Published Toward Discovery. Bronxville, N.Y.: Sarah Lawrence College 1982 Died, Warren, Ohio

From the guide to the Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd Papers, 1895-1968, (bulk 1922-1968), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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