Jean Webster

Jean Webster, birth name Alice Jane Chandler Webster, was an American writer best known for her fiction bestseller Daddy-Long-Legs, which was also successful in stage and motion picture adaptations. Born 24 July 1876 in Fredonia, New York, Webster, known to be related to Mark Twain (grand- uncle), attended Vassar College, where she became interested in orphanages and social welfare and began to pursue a career in literature.