Anne Parrish

Born in Colorado Springs in 1888, Anne Parrish grew up in a creative family and went on to build a successful writing career in the United States. She wrote both fiction for adults and books for children, and her work earned a wide readership in the early 20th century.

Her best-known titles include The Perennial Bachelor, Streams of Time, and the children's fantasy Floating Island. She was also remembered for a famous literary coincidence: she once bought a copy of Jack Frost and Other Stories in Paris and discovered it was the very book she had owned as a child.

Parrish died in Danbury, Connecticut, in 1957. Though she is less widely read today, her writing still stands out for its charm, strong sense of story, and easy movement between adult and children's literature.