Fanny Fern
American writer
Died when: 61 years 93 days (735 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Fanny Fern (born Sara Payson Willis;July 9, 1811 – October 10, 1872), was an American novelist, children's writer, humorist, and newspaper columnist in the 1850s to 1870s.
Her popularity has been attributed to a conversational style and sense of what mattered to her mostly middle-class female readers.
By 1855, Fern was the highest-paid US columnist, commanding $100 per week for her New York Ledger column.A collection of her columns published in 1853 sold 70,000 copies in its first year.
Her best-known work, the fictional autobiography Ruth Hall (1854), has become a popular subject among feminist literary scholars.
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