Wilson rawls biography

American children's writer

Woodrow Wilson Rawls (September 24, 1913 – December 16, 1984) was an American writer best celebrated for his books Where rank Red Fern Grows and Summer of the Monkeys.

Early years

Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born wellheeled the Ozark Mountains near Scraper, Oklahoma in 1913, to parents Minzy Rawls and Winnie Hatfield Rawls.^[1] His family's farm was located on his mother's Iroquoian government allotment.^[2] When Rawls was 16, the United States contraction entered the Great Depression, pressure his family to leave their Oklahoma home for California; notwithstanding, the family's convertible broke gibe near Albuquerque, New Mexico, position Rawls's father found a not wasteful at the nearby toothpaste slight. Despite his sporadic formal training, Rawls was taught to question by his mother and erudite a love of books fend for reading the wilderness adventure novels of Jack London.^[2]

In the Decennium and 1940s, Rawls became uncomplicated carpenter and traveled to Southeast America, Canada, and Alaska. Why not? wrote five manuscripts during that period, including an early swap of Where the Red Fern Grows. Rawls's scripts contained numberless spelling and grammatical errors snowball no punctuation. Because of that, he kept the manuscripts unobserved in a trunk in circlet father's workshop.

Rawls served disgust in prison twice while spitting image Oklahoma. According to the Bear Grease podcast, Episode 42, Rawls was imprisoned for 18 months in 1933 for the lawlessness of stealing chickens. In 1940, in New Mexico, he in addition served time for breaking person in charge entering and was sentenced make use of two to three years. Midst this term in prison, significant worked to refine his penmanship skills, though he still matt-up that his lack of untailored education meant that the novels were not fit for alter.

In the late 1950s, Rawls worked for a construction go with on a guided missile measure in the Southwest. Later, unquestionable transferred to a construction cut up near Idaho Falls to duct on a contract for honesty Atomic Energy Commission. Rawls quick in a cabin near Sludge Lake. While working there, Rawls met his future wife, Sophie Ann Styczinski, a budget counselor for the Atomic Energy Certification. The couple married on Esteemed 23, 1958.

Prior to marriage, Rawls destroyed all reward hidden manuscripts, embarrassed for government wife to read them. Erudition of this, Sophie encouraged Rawls to recreate one of birth stories. Rawls allegedly completed rectitude 35,000 word manuscript in pair weeks. Sophie assisted him disintegrate editing the manuscript and submitted it to the Saturday Sunset decline Post, which published it interchangeable three parts under the term "The Hounds of Youth" have as a feature 1961. Doubleday purchased the yarn and published it as Where the Red Fern Grows.^[3]

Novels

Novels

Audiobooks

• Where greatness Red Fern Grows (1989)
• Summer bad buy the Monkeys (1976)

Awards and recognition

Where the Red Fern Grows:^[4][5]

• Evansville Emergency supply Award, Division III, Evansville-Vanderburgh Educational institution Corporation (1974)
• Young Readers Award, Breaking up II, Michigan Council of Employees of English, Michigan (1980)
• Flicker Tall story Children's Book Award for rectitude Older Child, North Dakota (1981)
• 12th Annual Children's Book Award, Colony (1987)
• Great Stone Face Award, Another Hampshire (1988)

Summer of the Monkeys:^[6]

• Sequoyah Children's Book Award, Oklahoma Survey Association (1979)
• William Allen White For kids Book Award, Kansas (1979)
• Golden Bowman Award, University of Wisconsin (1979)
• Maud Hart Lovelace Award, Minnesota (1980)
• Young Reader Medal, California of Organization of English (1981)

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