Jean Webster
American novelist (1876-1916)
Biography
Jean Webster was the pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster, born in Fredonia, New York in 1876. She worked as a novelist, short story writer, journalist, playwright, humorist, and screenwriter. Her books included Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy, which centered on young female protagonists navigating intellectual, moral, and social development through humor and social commentary. She died in 1916.
Occupation
Jean Webster is recorded as a short story writer, a humorist, a children's writer, a novelist, a journalist, a playwright, a writer and a screenwriter, born in New York (1876–1916).
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