Jean Webster
Jean Webster was the pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster, an American author whose books include Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.
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- Born in
- Fredonia
- Educated at
- Vassar CollegeState University of New York at Fredonia
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1876
Born
Birth1916
Died
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