Anna May Stone (1876–1945) is listed in various census records as a homemaker, a sister, and a spinster. A handful of the pieces in Hobnobbing with the Birds were first published in Onward: A Paper for Young Canadians, a weekly illustrated youth and Sunday school periodical published by the United Church of Canada notable for serializing works by prominent Canadian authors, including L.M. Montgomery. Anna lived in Bloomfield, Ontario, with her brother Levi Stone, a farmer, and she is buried in Glenwood Cemetery in Picton, Ontario.

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