In New Zealand in October 1928, MM
married as her second husband an anthropologist colleague, Reo Fortune
, a man with rugged good looks and a strong, awkward mind. His father had been a missionary...
Family and Intimate relationships
Margaret Mead
MM
had notable affairs with a female fellow undergraduate, Leone Newton
, and with fellow-anthropologist Reo Fortune
(who later became her second husband). Many of her professional colleagues throughout her career, both male and female...
Fictionalization
Margaret Mead
In his New York Times obituary of her Alan Whitman
called her not only an anthropologist and ethnologist of the first rank but also something of a national oracle on other subjects ranging from atomic...
