Sara Rath

Author

Sara Lindsay Rath is a versatile author who has created award-winning work in a wide variety of genres.

Her first novel, Star Lake Saloon & Housekeeping Cottages was published in August 2005 by Terrace Books of University of Wisconsin Press. This account of Hannah Swann, a woman forced to take a midlife detour to save a run-down fishing resort from an international mining corporation in the northwoods of Wisconsin was praised by Publisher's Weekly as "a diversion as pleasant as a quiet summer day at the lakeshore."

In Night Sisters, Sara's twelfth book (pub.date 2008, University of Wisconsin Press) a Madison woman's flirtation with Spiritualism results in an encounter with a mischevious spirit and reflection upon the unresolved death of a childhood friend. This novel is partly set at the Wonewoc Spiritual Camp in western Wisconsin. Pub. date fall 2008, University of Wisconsin Press.

Sara is also the author of four collections of poems, including Remembering the Wilderness, awarded The Banta Award in 1984 by the Wisconsin Library Association.

The New York Times Book Review said The Complete Pig, published May, 2000 (paperback ed. 2004), "contains enough eccentric pig lore to leave the browser giddy with pleasure. And browsing is in order.” The Los Angeles Times called it a "swine fest, and "eye-opening for those who think of the pig only as 'the other white meat.'"

A companion book, The Complete Cow, 1998, was reviewed on NBC's TODAY and re-issued in paperback in May, 2003.

In 2003 Sara was awarded the Weston Cate Fellowship by the Vermont Historical Society to help research a biography of the passionate life and times of 19th century Vermont spiritualist, poet and activist, Achsa W. Sprague.

Sara has two children from a previous marriage, Jay Rath and Laura Rath Beausire, and lives in the rolling countryside of the Wisconsin River valley near Spring Green with husband Del Lamont and their chocolate lab, Sadie -- and the latest addition: Nellie, a calico Maine Coon kitten.