Elsie Clews Parsons
Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews
November 27, 1875 – December 19, 1941 (aged 66)
Birth place: New York City, New York, USA
American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist & feminist. First female president of the American Anthropological Society. Elsie Clews Parsons Prize is awarded every other year by the American Ethnological Society in her honor for best graduate student essay.
Used the pseudonym John Main.