Calvin Hall (1909-1985) was born in Seattle, Washington. As a psychologist, he was extremely interested in the field of behavior genetics and wrote a chapter in the Handbook of Experimental Psychology (1951) on his discovery of the heritability of genes in rats. In the 1950s Hall wrote The Meaning of Dreams (1953)A Primer of Freudian Psychology (1954) and Theories of Personality (1957); three works of which enormously contributed to the field of dream interpretation. As an undergraduate, Hall worked with Edward Tollman, who was a well known behaviorist of the time. In 1930 Hall received his bachelors from the University of California, Berkeley, and continued to obtain his Ph.D. in 1933.