Margaret Sidney was the pen name for Harriet M. Stone, who was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1844. During the 1870s, her short stories about the Peppers began appearing in periodicals and newspapers. In 1881, these stories were published in book form under the title Five Little Peppers and How They Grew.
Grace Conlin (1962-1997) was the recording name of Grainne Cassidy, an award-winning actress and acclaimed narrator. She was a member of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, and won a Helen Hayes Award in 1988 for her role in Woolly Mammoth's production of Savage in Limbo.