Fay Gilkey Calkins Ala'ilima (24 September 1921 - 1 August 2010)[1] was an American academic and writer who lived in Samoa.
[1] She then worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration assisting the survivors of Nazi concentration camps.
[1] Later she worked as an organiser for the Textile Workers Union of America before completing a PhD at the University of Chicago.
[1] She married Leiataualesa Vaiao Alailima in 1952 while studying in Washington, D.C., and moved with him to what was then Western Samoa.
[1] In 1995 she received a grant under the Fulbright Program for work on Samoan politics,[3] which later became her unpublished book, Samoa's Changing Chiefdom.