Alice Perrin was born in India in 1867. After her education in England, Perrin married Charles Perrin, an engineer in the India Public Works Department, in 1886, and the couple returned to India for the next sixteen years. Most of her works are based on her experiences in India. East of Suez, her first collection of short stories, was published in 1901 and her last novel, Other Sheep, was published in 1932. Her other notable works include The Spell of the Jungle (1902), The Anglo Indians (1912), The Happy Hunting Ground (1914), The Woman and the Bazaar (1914) and Star of India(1919). Alice Perrin died in Switzerland in 1934.