Anna Fuller

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Anna Fuller (November 9, 1853 – July 11, 1916){{Cite book |title=Who was who in American history, arts and letters |date=1975 |publisher=Marquis Who's Who |isbn=978-0-8379-3301-6 |editor-last=Marquis-Who's Who, inc |edition=76 bicentennial |location=Chicago}} was an American novelist and short story writer.

Anna Fuller was born on November 9, 1853 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the daughter of Robert Henry Fuller and Mary Lucretia Bent Fuller. She graduated from the Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Her print debut was in the New York Evening Post at the age of 21, but her first book was not published until she was 38.{{Cite book |last=Winslow |first=Helen M. (Helen Maria) |url=https://archive.org/details/littlejourneysin00winsiala/page/198/ |title=Little journeys in literature |date=1902 |publisher=Boston : L.C. Page & Co. |others=University of California Libraries}} That book was Pratt Portraits (1892), a popular collection of character studies originally published in Harper's Bazzar.

Her novel A Literary Courtship Under the Auspices of Pike's Peak (1893) features a pair of New Yorkers who travel to Colorado in search of the woman whose name one of them stole for a pseudonym.{{Cite book |last=Baym |first=Nina |url=https://archive.org/details/womenwritersofam0000baym |title=Women writers of the American West, 1833-1927 |date=2011 |publisher=Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-252-03597-5}} Her story collection Peak and Prairie: From a Colorado Sketchbook (1894) contains strong female protagonists and deals with issues such as spousal abuse and child abuse.

Anna Fuller died on 11 July 1916 in Boston.{{Cite web |title=Jul 13, 1916, page 2 - The Boston Globe at Newspapers.com - Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/430822656/ |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=www.newspapers.com |language=en}}