Minnie Mary Lee was a pen name of Julia Amanda Sargent Wood (née, Sargent; after marriage, Wood; April 13, 1825 – March 9, 1903), a 19th-century American sentimental author,[1][2] of poems, stories, sketches and novels, who sometimes also wrote as Mrs. Julia A.

[3][a] She began writing very early in life, but did not publish in book form until she was in her forties.

[5] She was at different times in editorial work, including with her son, conducting the Sauk Rapids Free Press.

Among them were The Heart of Myrrha Lake (New York City, 1872), Hubert's Wife (Baltimore, 1873), Brown House at Duffield (1874), Strayed from the Fold (1878), Story of Annette (1878), Three Times Three (1879), and From Error to Truth (New York, 1890).

She served as postmaster of Sauk Rapids for four years under the Grover Cleveland administration.

[11] Three of Wood's children lived to adulthood, including two sons, both of them journalists, and a daughter;[11] her first-born child died at age three.