Sarah Johnson Cocke

Born in 1865 and dying in 1944, Sarah Johnson Cocke was an American writer associated with Virginia and the wider South. She published novels and story collections in the early 1900s, including Bypaths in Dixie, The Master of the Hills, and Old Mammy Tales from Dixie Land.

Cocke wrote during a period when regional fiction was especially popular, and her books drew on Southern places, voices, and social life. For modern listeners, her work is also a historical record of the attitudes and storytelling habits of her era.

Though not widely known today, she remains of interest to readers exploring older American literature, Southern writing, and overlooked women authors from the turn of the twentieth century.