Louise Dickinson Rich
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Louise Dickinson Rich (14 June 1903 – 9 April 1991) was a writer known for fiction and non-fiction works about the New England region of the United States, particularly Massachusetts and Maine.[1] Her best-known work was her first book, the autobiographical We Took to the Woods, (1942) set in the 1930s when she and husband Ralph, and her friend and hired help Gerrish, lived in a remote cabin near Umbagog Lake. It was described as "a witty account of a Thoreau-like existence in a wilderness home."[2]
Sarah Louise was born in Huntington, Massachusetts, and grew up in Bridgewater, where her father was the editor of the weekly newspaper the Independent. She writes about growing up in Bridgewater, with her parents and her younger sister Alice Eldora, in "Innocence Under the Elms" (1955). Rich received a B.S. from Massachusetts State Teacher's College in 1924.
