Rachel Field
| Rachel Field | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 19, 1894 New York City |
| Died | March 15, 1942 (aged 47) Los Angeles, California |
| Resting place | |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | Radcliffe College |
| Period | 1924–1944 as an adult |
| Genre | Drama, poetry, novels, Christian fiction |
| Notable works |
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| Notable awards |
Newbery Award 1930 National Book Award 1935 |
| Spouse | Arthur S. Pederson |
| Children | Hannah and ? |
Rachel Lyman Field (1894–1942) was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer. She is best known for the Newbery Award-winning Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. Field also won a National Book Award, Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list.
Field was a descendant of David Dudley Field, the early New England clergyman and writer. She grew up in . Her first published work was a essay entitled "A Winter Walk" printed in St. Nicholas Magazine when she was 16. She was educated at Radcliffe College where she studied writing under George Pierce Baker.
According to Ruth Hill Viguers, Field was "fifteen when she first visited Maine and fell under the spell of its 'island-scattered coast'. Calico Bush [1931] still stands out as a near-perfect re-creation of people and place in a story of courage, understated and beautiful."
Field married Arthur S. Pederson in 1935, with whom she collaborated in 1937 on To See Ourselves. In 1938 one of her plays was adapted for the British film The Londonderry Air. She was also successful as an author of adult fiction, writing the bestsellers Time Out of Mind (1935), All This and Heaven Too (1938), and And Now Tomorrow (1942). They were adapted as films produced under their own titles in 1947, 1940, and 1944 respectively. Field also wrote the English lyrics for that version of Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria" used in the Disney film Fantasia.
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