Sarah Knowles Bolton

Sarah Knowles Bolton (1841–1916) was an American writer and reformer, born in Farmington, Connecticut. She was active in the temperance and woman suffrage movements and wrote for the periodical press.

She is best known for her collective biographies for young readers, including Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous (1885) and Lives of Girls Who Became Famous (1886); she also wrote verse, of which ‘The Inevitable’ was chosen for Stedman’s An American Anthology (1900).