E. Ruth Anderson

Elsie Ruth Anderson (23 June 1907 – 24 November 1989) was an American musicologist, weather observer, and editor.

Biography Anderson attended the New England Conservatory of Music from 1924 to 1931, again in 1934, and again from 1940 to 1941. On June 23, 1931, Anderson received a Diploma in Orchestra with a concentration in Violin from the New England Conservatory of Music. She also wrote a history of the building that houses the AMS – the Harrison Gray Otis House at 45 Beacon Street. While working for the AMS, she compiled and wrote the Contemporary American Composers: A Biographical Dictionary, published in 1977, with a follow-up edition in 1982. and sold to Macmillan Publishing in 1985; it is now an imprint of Thomson Gale) 1st ed. (1976) (513 pages, 4to);