Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee (November 5, 1780[1]-December 27, 1865[2]) was an American author, best known for her 1837 novelette Three Experiments of Living which was published in more than 30 editions in the United States, and 10 in England.

Lee was a popular novelist during her life, though her writing was not lauded and her success is now largely forgotten.

[3] Lee was born in 1780 to physician Micajah Sawyer and Sibyll Farnham, in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

[7] Lee wrote an appendix to an autobiography of Hannah Adams in 1832, which older sources often cite as her first publication, although her little-noticed novel Grace Seymour was first published in 1830.

Three Experiments of Living (1837), arising out of the financial crises of the Panic of 1837 was a bestseller for many years.