Anne Parrish

Anne Parrish (November 12, 1888 – September 5, 1957) was an American novelist and writer of children's books. Her father was Thomas Clarkson Parrish, an etcher from Philadelphia. Anne Parrish was the elder sister of the illustrator-writer Dillwyn Parrish and a cousin of the painter Maxfield Parrish. Thomas Parrish was in the Colorado mining business and died in 1899 around age 53.

The rest of her childhood was spent in her family hometown of Claymont, Delaware. She went on to study "painting in Philadelphia, more because my mother and father were painters than because I was one."

In 1925 she was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal for The Dream Coach, the third collaboration with her brother. An author of stories that mostly featured female protagonists, in 1927, she had another novel make it into the top ten list of bestselling novels in the United States. She repeated on the annual bestsellers list again in 1928 with All Kneeling, that was made into the 1950 film Born to Be Bad, starring Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan.