Author | Frederick Gale Ruffner Jr. |
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Country | United States |
Genre | Reference |
Published | 1954 |
Publisher | Gale |
The Encyclopedia of Associations (EA) is a comprehensive directory of more than 20,000 associations, societies, and other non-profit membership organizations in the United States of America. [1]
Originally titled the Encyclopedia of American Associations, EA was created by Frederick Gale Ruffner, Jr. in 1954 while he was working as a market researcher in Detroit, Michigan. [2]
More than 140 scholarly articles have made use of EA. [3]
Past extracts from EA have included "Organized Obsessions" [4] and the "Gale Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Associations". [5]
A detailed history of EA is available in an article in Distinguished Classics of Reference Publishing [6] [7]