Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Elsie Clews Parsons
Born: November 27, 1875
Died: December 19, 1941 (aged 66)
Bio: Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes such as the Tewa and Hopi in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. She helped found The New School.
Known for:
- Pueblo Indian religion (1939)
- Fear and conventionality (1914)
- Taos tales
- Tewa tales (1926)
- American Indian life (1922)