Fanny Alice Hagin Mayer (September 3, 1899 – November 6, 1990) was an American folklorist, translator, and educator.
[1] She graduated from Glendale Union High School[2] and from Occidental College.
[5] After the war she worked in Japan for the Allied occupation forces based in Niigata, as an assistant officer focusing on education and women's affairs.
Mayer lived her later years in Whittier, California,[3] where she died in 1990, at the age of 91.
[6] She donated hundreds of volumes of Japanese-language texts to the UCLA Library.