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Margaret Mead was born on December 16, 1901 in Philidelphia Pennsylvania to her parents Edward Sherward Mead, a professor, and Emily Fogg Mead, a sociologist. She was the oldest of five children.
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Margaret joined DePauw University in 1919 and later transfered to Branard College and graduated in 1923 with a B.A.
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Margaret set out in 1925 to Ta'u, Samoa to study the life of adolescent girls despite the opposition from her collegues.
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In 1926 Margaret was appointed the assistant curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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Margaret published Coming of Age in Samoa, a book she had written on the field work she had conducted on adolescent females in Samoa.
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Margaret earned her Ph.D at Columbia University on 1929, but the exact date of her graduation is unknown.
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Margaret and Reo Fortune arrived in December 1931 to Arapesh but the exact date is unkown. She later published five technical volumes on the Arapesh people.
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Despite many miscarriages Maragret became pregnant with her daughter Mary Catherine Bateson. Her daughter's father was Gregory Bateson.
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Margaret died of pancreatic cancer on November 15, 1978 leaving behind the foundation for anthroplogy.
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In 1979 Margaret Mead was awarded pothsumously the Presedential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter for bringing the central insight of cultural anthropology to millions.
