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Sarah Pratt McLean Greene
1856–1935
Known for vivid local-color fiction, this American novelist brought Cape Cod and other regional communities to life with humor, sharp observation, and an ear for everyday speech. Her work helped capture the texture of late 19th-century New England in stories that still feel lively and human.
2 Audiobooks
Cape Cod Folks
by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene
Vesty of the Basins
by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene
About the author
Born in Simsbury, Connecticut, in 1856, she became an American regionalist writer whose fiction focused on local life in New England and the American West. She published some of her earlier work as Sally Pratt McLean and later as Sarah P. McLean Greene.
She is best known for Cape Cod Folks (1881), a popular novel that drew on her experience teaching on Cape Cod and showcased the humor, customs, and speech of the people she wrote about. Her books are often associated with the local-color tradition, which prized close observation of place and community.
Greene continued publishing fiction for decades and died in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1935. Though not as widely read today as some of her contemporaries, she remains a notable voice in American regional writing.