Anne Warner

Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1869, Anne Richmond Warner French wrote under the name Anne Warner. She was an American humorist and novelist whose work was widely read in the early 1900s.

She is best remembered for her stories about Susan Clegg, a talkative and memorable small-town character who appeared in a series of books. Those stories were praised for their comic voice and their feel for everyday life, and they helped make Warner a popular author of local-color fiction.

Warner married Charles Eltinge French and died in 1913 in Dorset, England. Though she is less widely known today than some of her contemporaries, her books remain a lively example of turn-of-the-century American humorous writing.