Author and playwright Anna Alice Chapin was born on December 16, 1880, at Newport, New York, to Dr. Frederick Windle Chapin and Anna Jenkins Hoppin. She would go on to be a popular writer of novels, short stories and fairy tales. Chapin collaborated with Glen MacDonough on the libretto "Babes in Toyland" (1904) and was the author of at least two books on music, "Wonder Tales from Wagner" (1898) and "Masters of Music: Their Lives and Works" (1901). She also wrote several plays with her husband, British-born actor/playwright, Robert Peyton Carter.

Anna Alice Chapin died on February 26, 1920 at her residence in New York City. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1918.

Chicago Tribune February 27, 1920, Los Angeles Times, July 8, 1918, Miles Hewitt family Genealogy, The Critic, An Illustrated Monthly Review of Literature, Art and Life, July-December 1904,

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Anna Alice Chapin

Writer