Olive San Louie Anderson (1852–1886) was an American author and member of the first class of women students who entered the University of Michigan when it became coeducational in 1871.

In fall 1871, the university admitted thirty-three more women, two in law, eighteen in medicine, and thirteen in the Department of Science, Literature, and the Arts.

The book was published, titled, in full, An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys’ College, in 1878 under the pen name "SOLA", an anagram of her initials.

Planning a series of panel sketches for which she was writing the literary material, her party went up the Sacramento River on a yacht called the Ariel.

A friend, Elizabeth C. Curtis, collected some of her last writings, which Anderson would probably never have published, and printed 500 copies entitled "Stories and Sketches" in remembrance of her.