Richard M. Dorson (1916–1981)

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1. Richard M. Dorson

   Author of American Folklore (The Chicago History of American Civilization), American Negro folktales, Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers: Folk Traditions of the Upper Peninsula

2. Jan Brunvand

   Author of The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings, The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction, Readings in American Folklore

3. Henry H. Glassie

   Author of Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States (Folklore and Folklife), Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Culture and History of an Ulster Community, All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming

4. Linda Dégh

   Author of Folktales of Hungary, Folktales and Society: Story-Telling in a Hungarian Peasant Community (A Midland Book), American Folklore and the Mass Media (Folklore Today)

5. Alan Dundes

   Author of Study of Folklore, Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore (Critical Studies on Black, Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded: Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire

6. Max Luthi

   Author of Es war einmal, The European Folktale: Form and Nature (Folklore Studies in Translation), The Fairytale As Art Form and Portrait of Man (Midland Book)

7. Stith Thompson

   Author of The Folktale, Tales of the North American Indians, One Hundred Favorite Folktales. (Midland Book)

8. Samuel Eliot Morison

   Author of The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860, Builders of the Bay Colony, The Intellectual Life of Colonial New England

9. Vance Randolph

   Author of Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales, Ozark Magic and Folklore

10. Vladimir Propp

    Author of Morphology of the Folktale, Theory and History of Folklore

11. Alan Axelrod

    Author of Penguin Dictionary of American Folklore

12. Roger Abrahams

    Author of African Folktales, Deep down in the jungle ...; Negro narrative folklore from the streets of Philadelphia

13. G. Malcolm Laws

    Author of Native American balladry, a descriptive study and a bibliographical syllabus

14. Elizabeth C. Fine

    Author of The Folklore Text: From Performance to Print

15. Richard Bauman

    Author of Verbal Art As Performance

16. Wolfram Eberhard

    Author of Folktales of China

17. Antti Aarne

    Author of The types of the folktale, a classification and bibliography

18. Marie-Louise Von Franz

    Author of Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales (A C.G. Jung Foundation Book), The Interpretation of Fairy Tales

19. Heather Forest

    Author of Wisdom Tales from Around the World (World Storytelling), Wonder tales from around the world

20. Rosemary Levy Zumwalt

    Author of American Folklore Scholarship (Folkloristics)