Anne Edwards (August 20, 1927 – January 20, 2024) was an American writer best known for her biographies, including those of celebrities such as Maria Callas, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Mitchell, Ronald Reagan, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Temple and royalty including Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, Princess Diana and Countess Sonya Tolstoy.

In an interview for Publishers Weekly, Edwards said, "An idea hits me, then I develop the story or, in the case of a biography, think of a person who exemplifies that theme.

Vivien [Leigh], Judy [Garland] and Sonya [Tolstoy] were vastly interesting people and symbolic of certain things: Judy, the exploitation of a woman; Vivien, somebody who suffered from manic-depression; Sonya, an intelligent woman subjugated to a man who used her, drained her, made a villain of her.

[5] According to her autobiography, Leaving Home: A Hollywood Writer's Years Abroad, the reason for her leaving the United States was because she was on the master blacklist of the House Un-American Activities Committee, whose goal was to "wipe out progressives and unionists in the film business and all socially critical picture-making.

"[5] While living in London, she crossed paths several times with Judy Garland, who was the subject of her first celebrity biography.