Howard Madison Parshley (7 August 1884 in Hallowell, Maine – 19 May 1953) was an American zoologist, a specialist on the Heteroptera who also wrote more broadly on genetics, reproduction and human sexuality.
The son of a Baptist minister, Parshley was educated at Harvard University.
In 1917, Parshley became assistant professor of zoology at Smith College, where he would stay until 1952.
[1] In 1949 he was asked to translate Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe.
Despite a minor heart attack in 1952, Parshley completed this task; his translation, published in 1953, has subsequently been criticized for inaccuracies and excisions.