1912. Webster was a grandniece of Mark Twain. She was interested in social work, especially the fields of childcare and prison reform, but her main occupation was writing. She wrote a number of short stories and novels for younger readers including her most famous work, Daddy- Long-Legs. In Daddy-Long-Legs Jerusha Abbot is an orphan with a wicked pen and penetrating insight. Lately of the John Grier Home for orphans, of which too little good cannot be said, Miss Abbott embarks upon a course of college study funded by an anonymous benefactor. This epistolary story contains her charming letters to her unknown Daddy-Long-Legs, named by Miss Abbott because only once at the orphanage did she see his shadow drawn out in the headlights of the car toward which he walked. The insight and wit in this little book are priceless. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

琴·韋伯斯特，美國人。1876年齣生於紐約州的佛雷多尼亞一個充滿文藝氣息的傢庭中，父親從事齣版工作，母親是馬剋·吐溫的侄女。

在校期間，她就常常在巴薩女子大學的校友雜誌和地方新聞刊物投稿；並利用課餘時間，到孤兒院和感化院做社會服務。而這段時間的所見所聞，也成為她日後寫作《長腿叔叔》的最佳素材。1912年，韋伯斯特齣版小說《長腿叔叔》。在她多項作品中，以《長腿叔叔》最受讀者喜愛，此書後來拍成電影，由當時最受歡迎的女明星擔任女主角，使小說的影響更加深入。