Jerusha Abbott at 18 years is the eldest orphan at John Grier Homeorphanage. All petty responsibilities of the kids at the orphanage reston her tender shoulders. One fine day, her mundane life under goes a surprising change when an unknown trustee of the orphanage to pay for her college education as he is very impressed by one of her essays! He promises her a liberal monthly allowanceand insists on being anonymous. His only condition is that Jerushashould send him monthly letters and keep him posted about her life in college, but not to expect any replies from him.What follows is an insight into Jerusha's unexplored, fascinating world of college life through the letters that she writes to her unknownbenefactor. She addresses him adoringly as “Daddy-Long-Legs” as she had seen his long shadow once while he was leaving the asylum.She shares a love–hate–anger–gratitude relationship with him.Finally, at the end of the story, The identity of Daddy-Long-Legs is reveal Ed. Is her godfather someone familiar or a total stranger?. Jean Webster, an American novelist and playwright, was born Alice Jane Chandler Webster on 24 July 1876 in Fredonia, New York. She was the eldest child of Annie Moffet Webster (a niece of Mark Twain) and Charles Luther Webster. Webster grew up in a strongly matriarchal and activist family atmosphere. She went on to major in English and economics from Vassar College in 1901. As part of her course, she started visiting and taking a keen interest in institutions for orphaned and delinquent children. These experiences provided material for novels like When Patty Went to College (1903) and Daddy-Long-Legs (1912). She married Glenn Ford McKinney in 1915. Webster continued to write and publish with books like Jerry Junior (1907) and The Four Pools Mystery (1908), but achieved her first real commercial and critical success with Daddy-Lo.