Elsie Ruth Anderson (23 June 1907 – 24 November 1989) was an American musicologist, weather observer, and editor.
On June 23, 1931, Anderson received a Diploma in Orchestra with a concentration in Violin from the New England Conservatory of Music.
[1] During World War II, Anderson enlisted in the WAVES and trained at the Navy Aerographers School at Lakehurst Maxfield Field, New Jersey.
For 15 years, she served as News Editor of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
While working for the AMS, she compiled and wrote the Contemporary American Composers: A Biographical Dictionary, published in 1977, with a follow-up edition in 1982.