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2026 Three-Ounce Forever Stamp,Literary Arts: Sarah Orne Jewett
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2026 Sarah Orne Jewett
- 35th Stamp in Literary Arts series
- Covered 3-ounce rate
- Features author of short stories, novels, poetry, and essays
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Literary Arts
Value: $1.36, 3-Ounce Letter Rate
First Day of Issue: August 21, 2026
First Day City: South Berwick, Maine
Quantity Issued: 5,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset, Microprint
Format: Pane of 20
Why the stamp was issued: Stamp covered the 3-ounce letter rate. It is the 35th stamp in the Literary Arts series.
About the stamp design: USPS art director Ethel Kessler used an original portrait by Mark Summers for the stamp design. The background shows the coast of Maine, a scene reminiscent of Jewett’s novel The Country of the Pointed Firs.
First Day City: The First Day ceremony was held in South Berwick, Maine, where Jewett was born.
About the Literary Arts Series: The Literary Arts Series began in 1979 with a John Steinbeck stamp. The objective of the Literary Arts Series is to honor America’s most renowned authors. As the USPS put it, “These skillful wordsmiths spun our favorite tales – and American history along with them.” The series honors both well-known and lesser-known authors, making it like an encapsulation of America’s rich and varied literary history.
History the stamp represents: This three-ounce stamp marks the 35th entry in the Postal Service’s Literary Arts Series. It honors a writer most Americans have never heard of but whose fingerprints are all over the fiction they have read.
As a girl in South Berwick, Maine, Sarah Orne Jewett was often sick, and her father, a country doctor, prescribed long walks, and a seat beside him on his rounds. She rode with him into fishing shacks and farmhouses up and down the coast, absorbing the voices and the losses of a place whose glory days were already behind it. The wharves that once loaded ships bound for ports across the globe stood silent by the time she grew up, and she spent a career turning that vanished world into fiction.
Still a teenager, Jewett sold a story to one of the country’s most respected magazines. By 1896, The Country of the Pointed Firs had made her the clearest voice in American regional fiction.
Decades later, a young writer she’d once mentored - Willa Cather, by then an acclaimed novelist herself - ranked it beside The Scarlet Letter and Huckleberry Finn as one of the few American books built to last. Jewett had always insisted that ordinary coastal lives deserved attention. Her writing spotlighted them in a way only a native could.
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2026 Sarah Orne Jewett
- 35th Stamp in Literary Arts series
- Covered 3-ounce rate
- Features author of short stories, novels, poetry, and essays
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Literary Arts
Value: $1.36, 3-Ounce Letter Rate
First Day of Issue: August 21, 2026
First Day City: South Berwick, Maine
Quantity Issued: 5,000,000
Printed by: Ashton Potter (USA) Ltd.
Printing Method: Offset, Microprint
Format: Pane of 20
Why the stamp was issued: Stamp covered the 3-ounce letter rate. It is the 35th stamp in the Literary Arts series.
About the stamp design: USPS art director Ethel Kessler used an original portrait by Mark Summers for the stamp design. The background shows the coast of Maine, a scene reminiscent of Jewett’s novel The Country of the Pointed Firs.
First Day City: The First Day ceremony was held in South Berwick, Maine, where Jewett was born.
About the Literary Arts Series: The Literary Arts Series began in 1979 with a John Steinbeck stamp. The objective of the Literary Arts Series is to honor America’s most renowned authors. As the USPS put it, “These skillful wordsmiths spun our favorite tales – and American history along with them.” The series honors both well-known and lesser-known authors, making it like an encapsulation of America’s rich and varied literary history.
History the stamp represents: This three-ounce stamp marks the 35th entry in the Postal Service’s Literary Arts Series. It honors a writer most Americans have never heard of but whose fingerprints are all over the fiction they have read.
As a girl in South Berwick, Maine, Sarah Orne Jewett was often sick, and her father, a country doctor, prescribed long walks, and a seat beside him on his rounds. She rode with him into fishing shacks and farmhouses up and down the coast, absorbing the voices and the losses of a place whose glory days were already behind it. The wharves that once loaded ships bound for ports across the globe stood silent by the time she grew up, and she spent a career turning that vanished world into fiction.
Still a teenager, Jewett sold a story to one of the country’s most respected magazines. By 1896, The Country of the Pointed Firs had made her the clearest voice in American regional fiction.
Decades later, a young writer she’d once mentored - Willa Cather, by then an acclaimed novelist herself - ranked it beside The Scarlet Letter and Huckleberry Finn as one of the few American books built to last. Jewett had always insisted that ordinary coastal lives deserved attention. Her writing spotlighted them in a way only a native could.
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