Ella Elizabeth Clark

Ella Elizabeth Clark was born in Summertown, Tennessee and educated in Illinois, at Northwestern University. She was on the English staff of Washington State University from 1927 to 1961. Her interest in Indian folktales began when she was a forest lookout for the United States Forest Service in the mountains of Western Washington during the Second World War. In her life, she visited many Indian reserves, where she was fortunate enough to sit at the feet of some of the last of the old generation of Indian storytellers.