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.
"[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.
While on a canoe trip with a girlfriend in Maine, she met Ralph Eugene Rich, a Chicago businessman who had recently "returned to the land".
The Riches lived on the Rapid River in rural Oxford County and split seasons between the Summer House, a large but poorly insulated home perched on the banks of the Rapid River, and the smaller but warmer Winter House, just a few steps away.