Margaret Mead was born on December 16, 1901, at the West Park Hospital in Philadelphia. After attending many schools because of family travel, Margaret graduated and was sent to college at DePauw University, but shortly after transferred to Barnard College where she studied economics and sociology. Barnard was the place where Margaret became interested in Anthropology. This was the result of having an interesting instructor, Franz Boas, and his assistant, Ruth Benedict, who became her lifelong friend.Margaret then continued her studies as a graduate student. Through school, she had the opportunity to do some fieldwork in Samoa. In Samoa, she studied the Manu adolescent girls in relation to American female adolescents, and through ethnographic findings found that culture influences personality, not genetics. After she returned, her book Coming of Age in Samoa was published.

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