When Harold Gray decided to make his comic about a girl, he turned to an old classic 1885 poem called "Little Orphant Annie", by James Whitcomb Riley. It had fantasy and folklore elements, and was based on Mary Alice Smith, an orphan Riley knew whose nickname was Allie. Riley befriended and eventually adopted her. The "Orphant" was a typo, but it stuck and succeeded in making the poem even more famous. The long forgotten poem became a well-known part of culture, inspiring Raggedy Ann and Andy as well as Annie.

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