Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909), American writer, born in South Berwick, Maine, and educated at Berwick Academy. Her stories of New England life depict the fading charms of the provincial New England countryside. Her works won her a place as one of the most important writers of the local-color literary genre in American literature. Among Jewett's works are Deephaven (1877); A Country Doctor (1884); The Life of Nancy (1895); The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), her most outstanding work; and The Tory Lover (1901).