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Jean Webster entered the Sloan Hospital for Women, New York on the afternoon of June 10, 1916. Glenn McKinney, recalled from his 25th reunion at Princeton University , arrived 90 minutes before Webster gave birth, at 10:30 p.m, to a six-and-a-quarter-pound daughter.
Jean Webster (born July 24, 1876, Fredonia, N.Y., U.S.—died June 11, 1916, New York, N.Y.) was an American writer who is best remembered for her fiction best-seller Daddy-Long-Legs, which was also successful in stage and motion picture adaptations.
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Born in New York State in 1876, Jean Webster was the daughter of Annie Moffett Webster, a niece of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), and Charles Webster, who published Twain's Huckleberry Finn and the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant.
In 1916, shortly after giving birth to a daughter, Jean Webster McKinney, Webster died from complications of childbirth. She was 39, at the height of her success as a storyteller and social activist. Webster’s editor, Douglas Doty, described her as “an artist without the artistic temperament”.
Jean Webster (1876–1916) was an American novelist and playwright born in New York State. Her mother was Mark Twain’s niece and her father was Twain’s business manager and publisher. Jean went to college and was interested in politics.
Aug 25, 2022 · Jean Webster (July 24, 1876 – June 11, 1916) was an American author best known for her enduring girls’ novel, Daddy-Long-Legs (1912), which was successfully dramatized two years after its publication.
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Jean Webster was born Alice Jane Chandler Webster on July 24 th, 1876 in Fredonia, New York. Webster adopted the name Jean while attending the Lady Jane Grey School in Binghamton, New York. In 1901 she graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
