![]() “It’s just like the prairie,” said John MacLachlan, speaking of the book. The book won the 1986 John Newbery Medal and was later adapted into a 1991 television movie, starring Christopher Walken and Glenn Close, for which MacLachlan co-wrote the script. Perhaps her most famous work, it tells the story of a farmer whose wife dies in childbirth, and who sends for a mail-order bride from Maine to live with him and his two children out West. ![]() MacLachlan authored more than 60 books for children, which have sold millions of copies, with “Sarah, Plain and Tall” selling more than 7 million. “She was always true to herself,” said her son John MacLachlan of Williamsburg. ![]() 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. ![]()
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