Sarah Preston Everett Hale (5 September 1796 – 14 November 1866) was an American diarist, translator, columnist and newspaper publisher.

When Hale's father died in 1802, her mother moved the family to Boston.

Hales bore eleven children, though only seven survived infancy.

Hale's common place books contain her translations, poems and stories.

Hale also created a reader entitled Boston reading lessons for primary schools, published in 1828.