author
Sarah Pratt McLean Greene
1856–1935
Best known for vivid stories of local life, this American regional writer brought Cape Cod and other corners of New England to the page with warmth, humor, and a sharp ear for everyday speech. Her fiction often focuses on community, character, and the textures of ordinary life.
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 novels and stories were set in New England and the western United States. She published some of her early work as Sally Pratt McLean and later used Sarah P. McLean Greene.
She is especially associated with Cape Cod Folks (1881), a book that helped establish her reputation for writing about local life, dialect, and custom. Her work is often grouped with other regional fiction of the late 19th century because of its close attention to place and to the voices of everyday people.
Greene died in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1935. Though she is not as widely read now as some of her contemporaries, she remains a notable figure in American local-color writing.