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{{Infobox Book | <!-- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]] or [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Books]] -->
| name = Letters to Jenny
| image = [[Image:Letterstojennycover.jpg|200px]]<!--prefer 1st edition-->
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| author = [[Piers Anthony]]<br/>[[Alan Riggs]]
| country = [[United States]]
| language = [[English Language|English]]
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| genre = [[Letter (message)|Letters]]
| publisher = [[Tor Books]]
| release_date = October 1994
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover]] and [[Paperback]])
| pages = 288 pp (hardcover 1st ed.)
| isbn = 0-8125-2282-6
| oclc= 31683681
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'''''Letters to Jenny''''' is a collection of letters written by [[Piers Anthony]] to Jenny Gildwarg, a 12-year old girl who was run over by a drunk driver on Dec 9th, 1988. The book also contains news of Jenny's progress after the accident.
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== Origin of the letters ==
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Jenny remained in a coma for several weeks, occasionally making small movements. According to Anthony's notes, she regained consciousness fully paralyzed, being able to move only her eyes and one finger. Feeling that Jenny was losing hope, her mother wrote to Anthony, asking if he would write a letter to Jenny, as he was one of her favorite authors. Anthony corresponded regularly.
== Jenny in fiction ==
Anthony wrote a letter to Jenny, proposing that he create a character patterned after her, in his next [[Xanth]] book, ''[[Isle of View]]''. The character is [[Other_characters_of_Xanth#Jenny_Elf_and_Sammy_Cat|Jenny Elf]], an [[elf]] of the ''[[Elfquest]]'' variety (another of her favorite series), which has a pet cat named Sammy (Jenny Gildwarg was a lover of animals). Jenny Elf has become a regular character in the Xanth series.
Anthony received a letter from Jenny's mother, in which she describes reading previous letter to Jenny. On asking her about the elf character, Jenny smiled.
== Jenny's recovery ==
Jenny since made much progress, communicating (at first) by blinking her eyes. Today, Jenny still uses a wheelchair.
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