Annie Cooper Burton

Annie Cooper Burton is a little-documented author associated with The Ku Klux Klan, first published in 1916. Modern catalog and reading sites consistently connect her name with that title, and public-domain editions have helped keep the book in circulation for contemporary readers.

Because reliable biographical sources are scarce, it is hard to confirm many personal details about her life beyond her authorship of this work. In cases like this, the book itself often becomes the main record of the writer's place in literary history.

Today, Burton is remembered less as a well-profiled public figure than as the author of a surviving historical text from its era. That makes her of interest to readers exploring archival nonfiction, contested historical narratives, and the ways older books continue to be rediscovered online.