| Annie Fellows
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| Nationality - American |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 15 May 1863
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Date of death - 1931 |
| Place of birth
- Evansville : Indiana |
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Annie Fellows Johnston was born Annie Julia Fellows in Evansville, Indiana on May 15, 1863.
Annie grew up with her mother, brother Erwin and two sisters, Lura & Albion, on a farm in McCutchanville, Indiana, near Evansville. Her father, Albion, a Methodist minister, died when she was only two, but left his influences through his theological books.
Annie began writing as a girl, producing poems and stories imitating those she read in Godsey's Lady's Book, Youth's Companion and St. Nicholas.
Annie was also known to have read every book in her Sunday school library. She attended district school, and even taught a year when she was 17.
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Annie attended the University of Iowa for one year (1881-82), then returned to Evansville to teach for three years, and later to work as a private secretary. She traveled for several months through New England and Europe, staying with cousins along the way. The influence of these trips would be seen later in many of her her works. When she returned, she married William L. Johnston (a cousin and a widower with three young children.) He encouraged her to write, and she began contributing stories to periodicals.
Johnston received tremendous fame and popularity around the turn of the 20th century as an author of books for children. She is best known for her thirteen book series beginning with The Little Colonel, although she wrote over forty books in all as well as contributed occasional stories to periodicals such as the Youth's Companion.
Annie Fellows Johnston died on October 5, 1931 at Pewee Valley, Kentucky.
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