author
Sarah Johnson Cocke
1865–1944
A Southern novelist and civic leader, she wrote fiction and folklore collections that drew on regional life and storytelling traditions. Her work includes Bypaths in Dixie, The Master of the Hills, and Old Mammy Tales from Dixie Land.
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Bypaths in Dixie: Folk Tales of the South
by Sarah Johnson Cocke
About the author
Born in Selma, Alabama, in 1865, she became known as an American writer and civic leader. Sources describe her as active in women's clubs as well as in literary work, and note that she published fiction centered on the South.
Her best-known books include Bypaths in Dixie, The Master of the Hills, and Old Mammy Tales from Dixie Land. She also wrote a memoir, A Woman of Distinction: From Hoopskirts to Shoestrings.
She died in 1944. Remembered both for her writing and for her public work, she belongs to a generation of authors who helped shape popular early-20th-century pictures of Southern history and folklore.