Anna Bartlett Warner

Born in 1824, Anna Bartlett Warner was an American writer remembered today above all for the hymn text "Jesus Loves Me." She wrote extensively alongside her sister, Susan Warner, and their work blended storytelling with strong religious themes that were especially popular with families and young readers.

Warner spent much of her life on Constitution Island in the Hudson River, where she and her sister became closely associated with Christian teaching and charitable work. In addition to hymns and devotional writing, she published fiction and helped build a lasting literary reputation that connected faith, home life, and everyday feeling.

Her writing stayed in circulation long after her lifetime, and the words of "Jesus Loves Me" became her most enduring legacy. She died in 1915, but her work remains a familiar part of American religious and literary history.