Anne is the medieval French form of the Hebrew *Hannah* ("grace, favor"). **Anne Frank (1929-1945)** — the **German-Dutch Jewish girl whose diary, written in hiding from the Nazis, became the most-read non-fiction book of the 20th century** after the Bible. **Anne Brontë (1820-1849)** — youngest of the Brontë sisters, author of *The Tenant of Wildfell Hall* (1848). **Anne Boleyn** (Henry VIII's second wife, beheaded), **Anne of Austria** (regent of France), **Anne Sexton** (Pulitzer-winning American poet), **Anne Carson** (Canadian classicist-poet) — the name appears at every node of Western cultural history.
Subject of countless biographies, films, and adaptations.
Anne reduces to nine — the number of grace.