Anna Bartlett Warner

Anna Bartlett Warner was an American writer, poet, and hymn writer born on August 31, 1824, and she died on January 22, 1915. She published fiction and devotional writing, sometimes using the pen name Amy Lothrop, and worked in the same literary world as her older sister Susan Warner, who was also a successful author.

She is most widely remembered for the lyrics of "Jesus Loves Me," which first appeared in Susan Warner's novel Say and Seal. The song became one of the best-known children's hymns in the English-speaking world, giving Anna Warner a lasting place in religious and literary history.

Much of her later life was tied to Constitution Island on the Hudson River, across from West Point. There, Anna and Susan Warner were known for teaching Bible classes to West Point cadets, and that close link between home, faith, and service gives her work much of its enduring character.