12 Facts About Anne Parrish

Anne Parrish was an American novelist and writer of children's books.

Anne Parrish was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal three times from 1925 to 1951.

Anne Parrish's father was Thomas Clarkson Parrish, an etcher from Philadelphia.

Anne Parrish was the elder sister of the illustrator-writer Dillwyn Parrish and a cousin of the painter Maxfield Parrish.

Thomas Anne Parrish was in the Colorado mining business and died in 1899 around age 53.

Anne Parrish trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women as a young woman, and studied under Thomas Eakins.

Anne Parrish chose a career in literature, with her first romantic novel Pocketful of Poses appearing in 1923, the same year she published a children's book, with her brother Dillwyn as illustrator.

Anne Parrish repeated on the annual bestsellers list again in 1928 with All Kneeling, that was made into the 1950 film Born to Be Bad, starring Joan Fontaine and Robert Ryan.

Anne Parrish assembled an art collection that included the 1873 Impressionist painting Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Vase with Red Poppies by Vincent van Gogh, both of which she bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum museum of art in Hartford, Connecticut.

In 1915, Anne Parrish married industrialist Charles Albert Corliss, who died in 1936.

Anne Parrish died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Danbury, Connecticut, in 1957.

Anne Parrish endowed the "Anne Parrish Titzell Professor of Neurology" chair at Cornell University, originally for research and treatment of mental and emotional disorders.