Anna Chapin Ray

Anna Chapin Ray (1865–1945) was an American novelist. Born in Westfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Smith College, she spent most of her life in New Haven, Connecticut. She began with stories for girls and boys, including the Teddy and Sidney series, and went on to write novels for adults, several of them set in Quebec, such as By the Good Sainte Anne and The Dominant Strain, as well as Ackroyd of the Faculty and The Brentons (1912). Her fiction is marked by close attention to family relations, religious and social questions, and quiet irony.