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Patricia MacLachlan, an award-winning writer known to millions of young readers as the author of "Sarah, Plain and Tall," a novel about two motherless farm children and the gentle woman who comes to the prairie to make them whole, died March 31 at her home in Williamsburg, Mass. She was 84.

WILLIAMSBURG — Celebrated local author Patricia MacLachlan, who wrote the acclaimed children’s book “Sarah, Plain and Tall,” died at her home in Williamsburg on March 31. She was 84 years old.“She was always true to herself,” said her son John...

Known to millions of young readers as the author of 'Sarah, Plain and Tall,' she sought to counter 'condescending' books that tried to teach children lessons.