Cora Stephan (born 7 April 1951 in Strang Bad Rothenfelde, West Germany) is a German-speaking writer and essayist. As an author of crime fiction she is known under the pseudonym Anne Chaplet. Stephan grew up in Osnabrück (Germany). Having studied in Hamburg and Frankfurt she graduated as a teacher in 1973 and took her PhD in 1976 with a thesis on the History of German Social-Democracy in the 19th Century. From 1976 to 1984 she taught at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt (Germany).