Edward Deming Andrews

Edward Deming Andrews
Born	6 March 1894  Pittsfield
Died	13 June 1964  (aged 70)
Education	Doctor of Philosophy
Alma mater	Yale University Amherst College
Occupation	Writer
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (1937)

Edward Deming Andrews (1894–1964) was a leading scholar and expert on the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, or the Shakers. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1930. During the decade including and after WW2, he was Dean and Head of the History Department at Scarborough School, in Scarborough-on-Hudson, New York. He frequently corresponded with Thomas Merton.^[1]

He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1937–1938.^[2]

Books[]

Andrews authored several books on the subject between 1932 and 1961. His list of titles includes:

• Andrews, Edward (1932). The community industries of the Shakers. Albany: University of the State of New York. LCCN 33028028.
• Andrews, Edward; Andrews, Faith (1937). Shaker furniture, the craftsmanship of an American communal sect. New Haven: Yale University Press. LCCN 37006514.
• Andrews, Edward (1940). The gift to be simple; songs, dances and rituals of the American Shakers. New York: J. J. Augustin. LCCN 40030330.
• Andrews, Edward (1953). The people called Shakers; a search for the perfect society. New York: Oxford University Press. LCCN 53009181.
• Andrews, Edward (1954). The Shaker order of Christmas. New York: Oxford University Press. LCCN 54012701.
• Andrews, Edward (1961). The Hancock Shakers : the Shaker community at Hancock, Massachusetts, 1780–1960. Hancock, Mass: . LCCN 85114831.

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