Anna M. (Anna Mariska) Fitch

Born in 1840, Anna M. Fitch was an American writer associated with early California literature. Biographical sources describe her as one of the first Californian women to produce a novel, and note that she wrote under several names, including Anna Guesner, Anna Kluesner, and Marisa A. Guesner.

Her life appears to have included more than one marriage, and records identify her by the surnames Corry or Cory, Schultz or Shultz, and later Fitch. She was married to Thomas Fitch, the well-known politician and orator, and later accounts say she assisted him with some of his writing as well.

Fitch died in 1904. Although detailed modern coverage of her work is limited, surviving reference material places her among the notable women writers of nineteenth-century California and the broader literary culture of the American West.