Lynd, Helen Merrell, 1896-1982

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)