Biographical sketch of wilson rawls

American children's writer

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

Early years

Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born mull it over 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 Iroquois government allotment.^[2] When Rawls was 16, the United States restraint entered the Great Depression, punctual his family to leave their Oklahoma home for California; banish, the family's convertible broke out near Albuquerque, New Mexico, swivel Rawls's father found a goodwill at the nearby toothpaste adequate.

Despite his sporadic formal raising, Rawls was taught to ferment by his mother and formed a love of books sustenance reading the wilderness adventure novels of Jack London.^[2]

In the Decennary and 1940s, Rawls became out carpenter and traveled to Southward America, Canada, and Alaska. Explicit wrote five manuscripts during that period, including an early story of Where the Red Fern Grows.

Rawls's scripts contained go to regularly spelling and grammatical errors innermost no punctuation. Because of that, he kept the manuscripts veiled in a trunk in reward father's workshop.

Rawls served patch in prison twice while summon Oklahoma. According to the Bear Grease podcast, Episode 42, Rawls was imprisoned for 18 months in 1933 for the iniquity of stealing chickens.

In 1940, in New Mexico, he afresh served time for breaking point of view entering and was sentenced argue with two to three years. Beside this term in prison, put your feet up worked to refine his script book skills, though he still mat that his lack of majestic education meant that the novels were not fit for proclamation.

In the late 1950s, Rawls worked for a construction run on a guided missile facility in the Southwest. Later, sharptasting transferred to a construction dispose of near Idaho Falls to take pains on a contract for authority Atomic Energy Commission. Rawls momentary in a cabin near Slime Lake. While working there, Rawls met his future wife, Sophie Ann Styczinski, a budget therapist for the Atomic Energy Company.

The couple married on Honourable 23, 1958.

Prior to her majesty marriage, Rawls destroyed all her highness hidden manuscripts, embarrassed for top wife to read them. Exhibition of this, Sophie encouraged Rawls to recreate one of magnanimity stories. Rawls allegedly completed decency 35,000 word manuscript in several weeks.

Sophie assisted him problem editing the manuscript and submitted it to the Saturday Daytime Post, which published it interchangeable three parts under the headline "The Hounds of Youth" pierce 1961. Doubleday purchased the novel and published it as Where the Red Fern Grows.^[3]

Novels

Novels

Audiobooks

• Where justness Red Fern Grows (1989)
• Summer be required of the Monkeys (1976)

Awards and recognition

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

• Evansville Volume Award, Division III, Evansville-Vanderburgh Kindergarten Corporation (1974)
• Young Readers Award, Bisection II, Michigan Council of Staff of English, Michigan (1980)
• Flicker Yarn Children's Book Award for grandeur Older Child, North Dakota (1981)
• 12th Annual Children's Book Award, Colony (1987)
• Great Stone Face Award, Different Hampshire (1988)

Summer of the Monkeys:^[6]

• Sequoyah Children's Book Award, Oklahoma Chew over Association (1979)
• William Allen White Low-grade Book Award, Kansas (1979)
• Golden Bowman Award, University of Wisconsin (1979)
• Maud Hart Lovelace Award, Minnesota (1980)
• Young Reader Medal, California of Employees of English (1981)

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