Helen Chapin Metz (April 12, 1928 – May 13, 2011) was an American editor and Middle East analyst.[1]
Helen Chapin was born on April 12, 1928, in Peking, China.[2] She was the daughter of diplomat Selden Chapin and Mary Paul Noyes. Her brother, Frederic L. Chapin, would also become a diplomat. She was educated at the Potomac School, the Madeira School, Vassar College, graduating in 1949,[3] and the American University of Beirut.[1]
She married Rev. Ronald Irvin Metz on July 14, 1951, in The Hague, Netherlands.[4] The couple settled in Washington, D. C., as they both had jobs in the federal government.[3]
Metz worked for the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, editing 15 Library of Congress Country Study handbooks.[1]
She died in Washington, D.C., on May 13, 2011.[1]
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