SARAH PRATT MCLEANSarah Pratt McLean (1856-1935) was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, the fourth of five children. She studied for two years at Mount Holyoke Seminary. In 1874, after two years at the seminary, she went to teach in the Cedarville, Massachusetts, school sstem for a year. She described her experience in this rural Cape town in a fictionalized memoir, Cape Cod Folks. The novel received good reviews and praise for its depiction of rural characters and life. Although she changed the name of the town and the off-Cape characters, she kept the names of the Cape Cod folk. A lawsuit followed with the residents of Cedarville complaining that they were made to look rustic and uneducated. The lawsuit was successful, despite McLean changing the characters names several times in various editions. Greene continued to write novels with strong local color, set in New England or in the American West. She married F.L. Greene in 1887 and travelled with him to the western United States. She returned to New England upon his death in 1890. She retired from writing in 1913, having completed 14 novels. Read More Read Less