Sep. 3: Sarah Orne Jewett, American author

BORN SEPTEMBER 3rd:

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) regional American novelist, short story writer, and poet known for works set in Maine, the antithesis of the "Big City" stories. The Country of the Pointed Firs is probably her most famous.

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