Robert Staughton Lynd was born on September 26, 1892, in New Albany, Indiana. He received his B.A. Degree from Princeton University and his Ph.D. Degree from Columbia University. From 1923 to 1926, he was employed at the Institute of Social and Religious Research. From 1926 - 1927, he was employed as an Associate Director of Educational Research for the Commonwealth Fund. Since 1931, he has been employed at the Social Service Research Council and as a Professor in the Graduate School of Political Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. Robert Staughton Lynd married Helen Merrill on September 3, 1921. She was a Professor at Sarah Lawrence College. Lynd, along with his wife, Helen Merrill Lynd, wrote the book "Middletown." Ten years after the first book, they wrote another book titled "Middletown in Transition." In 1942, he was employed as a consultant by the Office for Emergency Management, Washington, D.C.
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