Sarah Johnson Cocke

Born in Selma, Alabama, in 1865, she became known as an American writer as well as an active civic figure. Reliable reference sources describe her as a civic leader involved in women's clubs, and note that she later lived in Virginia.

Her best-known books draw on Southern settings and storytelling traditions. Among the works most consistently listed are Bypaths in Dixie, The Master of the Hills, and Old Mammy Tales from Dixie Land. Project Gutenberg also preserves some of her writing, which has helped keep her work accessible to modern readers.

She died in 1944. Today, she is remembered both for her fiction and for the way her writing captured a particular strain of Southern literary culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.