Johnston, Annie Fellows -- 1863-1931

Abstract Annie Fellows Johnston, born in 1863 in Evansville, Indiana, was a popular children's author around the turn of the 20th century.  Johnston wrote the popular Little Colonel series, which was the basis for the 1935 Shirley Temple film The Little Colonel.  Most of the characters in Johnston’s' semi-biographical works were based on actual people, places and experiences.  For the Little Colonel...