Anne Parrish

Anne Parrish (November 12, 1888 - September 5, 1957) was an American novelist and author of children's literature. She was a three-time winner of the Newbery Honor. She was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her father was Thomas Clarkson Parrish, who came from an artistic Philadelphia family. Her mother, Anne (née Lodge), had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, becoming a respected portrait painter and a friend of Mary Cassatt in Paris. Anne Parrish was the elder sister of author Dillwyn Parrish and cousin to the artist Maxfield Parrish, who used them as models in some of his paintings. Thomas Parrish was successful in the Colorado mining business, but died when she was relatively young. Anne Lodge-Parrish then moved the...