Jean Webster, the pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster (July 24, 1876 – June 11, 1916), was an American author whose books include Daddy-Long-Legs and My Deadly Enemy. Her most popular books feature cheerful, likable young heroines who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, serious dialogue, and mildly biting social commentary to make her books accessible and enjoyable to contemporary readers.