Annie Fellows Johnston
Encyclopedia
Annie Fellows Johnston was an American author of children's fiction who wrote the popular "Little Colonel" series, which was the basis for the 1935 Shirley Temple
film The Little Colonel
. She was born and grew up in McCutchanville, Indiana
, a small unincorporated town near Evansville, Indiana
.
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple Black , born Shirley Jane Temple, is an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, autobiographer, and former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia...
film The Little Colonel
The Little Colonel
The Little Colonel is a 1935 American comedy drama film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by William M. Conselman was adapted from a novel of the same name by Annie Fellows Johnston, and focuses on the reconciliation of an estranged father and daughter in the years following the American...
. She was born and grew up in McCutchanville, Indiana
McCutchanville, Indiana
McCutchanville is an unincorporated town located in both Center and Scott Townships in Vanderburgh County, Indiana. McCutchanville was established in 1845 and is named for Samuel McCutchan, a Scottish/Irish immigrant who was the first postmaster for the area.-History:McCutchanville was first...
, a small unincorporated town near Evansville, Indiana
Evansville, Indiana
Evansville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Indiana and the largest city in Southern Indiana. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 117,429. It is the county seat of Vanderburgh County and the regional hub for both Southwestern Indiana and the...
.
Works
- The Little Colonel (1895)
- The Gate of the Giant Scissors (1898)
- Two Little Knights of Kentucky (1899)
- The Little Colonel's House Party (1900)
- The Little Colonel's Holiday (1901)
- The Little Colonel's Hero (1902)
- The Little Colonel at Boarding School (1904)
- The Little Colonel in Arizona (1904)
- The Desert of Waiting (1905)
- The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation (1905)
- The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor (1906)
- Legend of the Bleeding Heart (1907)
- Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding (1907)
- The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware (1908)
- The Rescue of the Princess Winsome (1908)
- Mary Ware in Texas (1910)
- Mary Ware's Promised Land (1912)
- Miss Santa Clause of the Pullman (1913)
- Georgina of the Rainbows (1916)
- Georgina's Service Stars (1918)
External links
- Annie Fellows Johnston Biography
- Audiobooks of works by Annie Fellows Johnson at Librivox