page_title: Anne Parrish
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Anne Parrish / Career
context_page_description: Anne Parrish was an American novelist and writer of children's books. She was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal three times from 1925 to 1951.
context_section_description: As a young woman, Parrish trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and studied under Thomas Eakins. She chose a career in literature, with her first romantic novel Pocketful of Poses appearing in 1923, the same year she had a children's book published, with her brother Dillwyn as illustrator. Their collaboration titled Knee-High to a Grasshopper was followed by another book for children in 1924, Lustres.
  In 1925 she was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal for The Dream Coach, the third collaboration with her brother. That same year, her novel The Perennial Bachelor was the eighth  best-selling book for the entire year according to the New York Times and won the Harper Prize from her publisher, Harper & Brothers.  An author of stories that mostly featured female protagonists, in 1927, she had another novel make it into the top ten list of bestselling novels in the United States. She 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.
  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 (1886) by Vincent Van Gogh, both of which she bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum museum of art in Hartford, Connecticut.
caption: Monet painting in his garden in Argenteuil, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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