Jean Webster

Jean Webster was an American author and social activist best known for her epistolary novel Daddy Long-Legs, published in 1912. The charming story, told through letters from a young orphan to her mysterious benefactor, became an instant classic and has been adapted for stage and screen. Available as an audiobook and book, Daddy Long-Legs continues to delight readers and listeners with its wit, warmth and spirited heroine more than a century after its first publication.