Anne Parrish
| Anne Parrish | |
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| Born |
November 12, 1888 Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| Died | September 5, 1957 Danbury, Connecticut, US |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Children's literature, novels |
| Notable works | The Dream Coach, Floating Island, The Story of Appleby Capple |
Anne Parrish (November 12, 1888 – September 5, 1957) was an American novelist and writer of children's books. She was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal three times from 1925 to 1951.
Parrish was born November 12, 1888 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her father was Thomas Clarkson Parrish, who came from a Philadelphia family. Her mother, Anne (née Lodge), had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, becoming a portrait painter and a friend of Mary Cassatt in Paris. Anne Parrish was the elder sister of the illustrator-writer Dillwyn Parrish and a cousin of the artist Maxfield Parrish, who used them as models in some of his paintings. Thomas Parrish was in the Colorado mining business, dying when he was relatively young. Anne Lodge-Parrish then moved the family back to her hometown of Claymont, Delaware. In 1915, Parrish married industrialist Charles Albert Corliss.
As a young woman, Parrish trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and studied under Thomas Eakins. She chose a career in literature, with her first romantic novel Pocketful of Poses appearing in 1923, the same year she had a children's book published, with her brother Dillwyn as illustrator. Their collaboration titled Knee-High to a Grasshopper was followed by another book for children in 1924, Lustres.
In 1925 she was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal for The Dream Coach, the third collaboration with her brother. That same year, her novel The Perennial Bachelor was the eighth best-selling book for the entire year according to the New York Times and won the Harper Prize from her publisher, Harper & Brothers. 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.
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