English: Anna Forbes Liddell was born in 1891 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Liddell received her A.B. in 1918 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her M.A. at Cornell. She completed a Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina in 1925. For nearly forty years, 1926-1962, she taught in the Philosophy and Religion Department at Florida State College for Women (FSCW, in 1947 became Florida State University), serving as the department head for most of that time. From 1959-1960 Liddell was the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. Liddell died on August 30, 1979 in Tallahassee, Florida.