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Margaret Antoinette Clapp (April 10, 1910 – May 3, 1974)〔(Barbara Sicherman, Carol Hurd Green - ''Notable American Women: The Modern Period : a Biographical Dictionary, Volume 4'' )〕 was an American scholar and educator of great acclaim. ==Career== Clapp was born in East Orange, New Jersey and graduated from East Orange High School in 1926 and Wellesley College in 1930. She taught English literature at the Todhunter School for Girls in New York City for twelve years while working on her master's degree, which she obtained from Columbia University in 1937.〔(Margaret Antoinette Clapp ) Encyclopedia of world Biography〕 During and after World War II, she taught history at City College of New York, Douglass College, Columbia University, and Brooklyn College. Her doctoral dissertation at Columbia grew into the biography ''Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow'' published in 1947 and winner of the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.〔〔(Wellesley Class of 1930 ) Wellesley College〕〔("Biography or Autobiography" ). The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-26.〕 While she was president of Wellesley College from 1949 until her retirement in 1966, the college's resources and facilities were expanded substantially. Clapp was a strong advocate of careers for women. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1952.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterC.pdf )〕 After leaving Wellesley, Clapp served briefly as administrator of Lady Doak College, a women's college in Madurai, India, then as United States cultural attaché to India, then as minister-councilor of public affairs in the United States Information Agency until her retirement in 1971. The library at Wellesley is named for her.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Margaret Clapp Library )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margaret Clapp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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