Sarah Binks

Sarah Binks is a novel published in 1947 by University of Manitoba professor Paul Hiebert.

In 1967, Hiebert produced a sequel, Willows Revisited, which, although well-received, did not receive the same level of acclaim as the original novel.

[2] Although Hiebert's gentle brand of humour is recognizable to some in Canada, it is not uncommon for some to believe Sarah Binks to have been a real person and to excoriate her translations of Heinrich Heine.

Though some reviewers have suggested models for Sarah, including Canadian poet E. Pauline Johnson, Hiebert said that his character was not based on any single person.

[4] A small town poet in The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny is compared to Binks.