Author: Anna Harriette Leonowens
Born: 5 November 1831
Died: 19 January 1915
Bio: Anna Harriette Leonowens (born Ann Hariett Emma Edwards; 5 November 1831 – 19 January 1915) was an Anglo-Indian or Indian-born British travel writer, educator, and social activist. She is perhaps best known for her memoirs of her time as an English teacher in Siam, The English Governess at the Siamese Court, which covered her six years teaching English to the wives and children of Mongkut, the King of Siam. These memoirs were adapted into a work of fiction, Anna and the King of Siam, which in turn lent itself to various adaptions including the Rogers & Hammerstein musical The King and I.