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Jewett

American  
[joo-it] / ˈdʒu ɪt /

noun

  1. Sarah Orne 1849–1909, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.


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Which makes it puzzling that Jewett’s other books are so rarely reprinted.

From The Wall Street Journal

Amid this gentle drama, Jewett depicts the marshland, where “the lines of the creeks made a broad tracery whichever way one looked.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But USC third base coach Travis Jewett was spinning his arm almost immediately, sending Dowd home.

From Los Angeles Times

You discuss the findings of the 1977 book, "The American Monomyth" by Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence.

From Salon

Jewett and Lawrence were trying to figure out how Americans could possibly stomach the incredible violence of the Vietnam War, which was coming into their living rooms for the first time.

From Salon