Annie Fellows Johnston was born in North Carolina and settled in New York City. She became a writer and began her career as a journalist. At the age of thirty she published her first novel, The Story of an Old Farm Woman, which was hailed as a fine piece of fiction. She continued to write with great vigor and has produced many other works, including several novels and memoirs
She is the author of the bestselling book The Long Shadow, which tells the story of her childhood, and her last book My Life and Loves: Autobiography and Biography (1941) consists entirely of reminiscences of her many romantic affairs. Her biography of Mark Twain, A Mark Twain Encyclopedia (1955), is still considered a standard reference.
The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.Annie Fellows Johnston
I’ve got something so lovely to think about that I’d like to go back and sit down in the garden, and just think and think until dark without being interrupted by anybody.Annie Fellows Johnston
