Ruth Murray Underhill was an American anthropologist. She was born in Ossining-on-the-Hudson, New York, and attended Vassar College, graduating in 1905 with a degree in Language and Literature. In 1907, she graduated from the London School of Economics and began travelling throughout Europe. During World War I, she worked for an Italian orphanage run by the Red Cross.
- Occupation
- anthropologist, novelist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 22, 1883
- Died
- August 15, 1984
