author
Anna Alice Chapin
1880–1920
A prolific American writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she moved easily between novels, poetry, children’s books, and musical theater. She is especially remembered for writing the libretto for the operetta Babes in Toyland with Glen MacDonough.
3 Audiobooks
Greenwich Village
by Anna Alice Chapin
The true story of Humpty Dumpty : how he was rescued by three mortal children in Make Believe Land
by Anna Alice Chapin
The story of the Rhinegold (Der Ring des Nibelungen) told for young people
by Anna Alice Chapin
About the author
Born in 1880 and deceased in 1920, Anna Alice Chapin was an American author whose work ranged across several forms, including fiction, verse, and writing for young readers. Public-domain and library records also show her publishing books such as The Crossways and other literary works during the early 1900s.
She is best known in many reference listings for her connection to the stage work Babes in Toyland, for which she is credited as librettist alongside Glen MacDonough. That blend of literary and theatrical work gives her a distinctive place among writers of her era.
Today, her work remains accessible through archival and public-domain collections, which has helped keep interest in her writing alive more than a century later.