Eva March Tappan (December 26, 1854 – January 29, 1930) was a teacher and
Americanauthor born in
Blackstone, Massachusetts, the only child of Reverend Edmund March Tappan and Lucretia Logée. Eva graduated from
Vassar College in 1875. She was a member of
Phi Beta Kappa and an editor of the Vassar Miscellany. After leaving Vassar she began teaching at
Wheaton College where she taught Latin and German from 1875 until 1880. From 1884–94 she was the Associate Principal at the Raymond Academy in
Camden, New Jersey. She received graduate degrees in English Literature from the
University of Pennsylvania. Tappan was the head of the English department at the
English High School at
Worcester, Massachusetts. She began her literary career writing about famous characters in history and developed an interest in writing children books. Tappan never married.