Benedict was born Ruth Fulton in New York City on June 5, 1887, to Beatrice (Shattuck) and Frederick Fulton. Her mother … See more

In her search for a career, she decided to attend some lectures at the New School for Social Research while looking into the possibility of becoming an educational philosopher. While at the school, she took a class calle… See more

Benedict's Patterns of Culture (1934) was translated into fourteen languages and was for years published in many editions and used as standard reading material for anthropology courses in American universities. … See more

The American Anthropology Association awards an annual prize named after Benedict. The Ruth Benedict Prize has two categories, one for monographs by one writer and one for edited volumes. The prize recog… See more

• Babcock, Barbara. 1995. "Not in the First Person Singular" (reprinted in) Behar, Ruth and Deborah A. Gordon (eds.). Women Writing Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Bateson, Mary Catherine. 1984. With … See more

• Works by Ruth Benedict at Faded Page (Canada)
• Works by Ruth Benedict at Open Library
• Mead, Margaret (July 1949). "Ruth Benedict's obituary". American Anthropologist. 51 (3): 457–468. doi:10.1525/aa.… See more