Austin E. Fife

American folklorist, one of the pioneers in Mormon folklore studies (18 December 1909 — 7 February 1986). Austin E. Fife primarily worked in the team with his wife, Alta Stevens Fife (16 March 1912 — 8 December 1996), whom she met at Utah State University. They began researching folklore in the late 1930s while living in California; Austin Fife was then a graduate student at Stanford University.