Anna Alice Chapin, was American author and playwright.
Background
Anna Alice Chapin was born in New York City, the daughter of Doctor Frederick Windle Chapin and the former Anna J. Hoppin. Her father, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, attended Trinity College, Hartford and received his medical degree from New York University. Her mother was most likely a close relative of the architect Howard Hoppin (1854-1940), who designed several buildings in the Pomfret Street Historic District, including the Chapin home.
Education
Chapin received a private education and studied music under Harry Rowe Shelley and published her first book, The Story of the Rhinegold, when she was just 17 years old.
Career
She wrote novels, short stories, fairy tales and books on music, but is perhaps best remembered for her 1904 collaboration with Glen MacDonough on the libretto Babes in Toyland Her other works would include: Wonder Tales from Wagner (1898). Wotan, Siegfried, and Brunhilde, (1898). Masters of Music (1901).
The True Story of Humpty Dumpty: How He Was Rescued by Three Mortal Children in Make Believe Land, Illustrated & Decorated by Ethel Franklin Betts (1905).
Discords, (1905); The Heart of Music (1906). Königskinder, (1911).
The Nowadays Fairy Book (1911). The Street-Carolina Mystery (1911).
The Spirit of the Sea (1912).
The Topsy Turvy Fairy (1913). The Eagle"s Mate (1914). The Every Day Fairy Book (1915).
Mountain Madness (1917).
And Jane (1920). Not yet forty, Chapin died after a short illness at her residence on West Thirteenth Street, New York City.