Who is the British-American novelist and playwright whose novel inspired this Japanese anime series produced by Nippon Animation in 1988 and broadcast on the "World Masterpiece Theater"?
Frances Hodgson Burnett Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (published in 1885–1886), "A Little Princess" (1905), and "The Secret Garden" (1911).
Anthony Hope Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1894) and its sequel "Rupert of Hentzau" (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance, works set in fictional European locales similar to the novels. "Zenda" has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same name.