Authors And Friends is a book written by Annie Fields, an American author, editor, and social reformer. The book is a collection of essays and personal recollections of her interactions with various authors and literary figures of the 19th century. Fields was a close friend of many prominent writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and her book offers insights into their lives and works through her unique...