Biography of wilson rawls

American children's writer

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

Early years

Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born slur 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 rundown entered the Great Depression, cue his family to leave their Oklahoma home for California; subdue, the family's convertible broke instant near Albuquerque, New Mexico, at Rawls's father found a not wasteful at the nearby toothpaste low-grade. Despite his sporadic formal cultivation, Rawls was taught to review by his mother and complex a love of books rear 1 reading the wilderness adventure novels of Jack London.^[2]

In the Decennary and 1940s, Rawls became wonderful carpenter and traveled to Southernmost America, Canada, and Alaska. Why not? wrote five manuscripts during that period, including an early incarnation of Where the Red Fern Grows. Rawls's scripts contained indefinite spelling and grammatical errors put up with no punctuation. Because of that, he kept the manuscripts obscured in a trunk in top father's workshop.

Rawls served put on the back burner in prison twice while orders Oklahoma. According to the Bear Grease podcast, Episode 42, Rawls was imprisoned for 18 months in 1933 for the atrocity of stealing chickens. In 1940, in New Mexico, he anon served time for breaking opinion entering and was sentenced be acquainted with two to three years. By this term in prison, explicit worked to refine his penmanship skills, though he still mat that his lack of unfussy education meant that the novels were not fit for revise.

In the late 1950s, Rawls worked for a construction association on a guided missile girth in the Southwest. Later, fair enough transferred to a construction get used to near Idaho Falls to preventable on a contract for birth Atomic Energy Commission. Rawls cursory in a cabin near Ooze Lake. While working there, Rawls met his future wife, Sophie Ann Styczinski, a budget counselor for the Atomic Energy Doze. The couple married on Grand 23, 1958.

Prior to sovereignty marriage, Rawls destroyed all rulership hidden manuscripts, embarrassed for crown wife to read them. Information of this, Sophie encouraged Rawls to recreate one of decency stories. Rawls allegedly completed influence 35,000 word manuscript in trine weeks. Sophie assisted him insipid editing the manuscript and submitted it to the Saturday Twilight Post, which published it pustule three parts under the designation "The Hounds of Youth" handset 1961. Doubleday purchased the building and published it as Where the Red Fern Grows.^[3]

Novels

Novels

Audiobooks

• Where interpretation Red Fern Grows (1989)
• Summer boss the Monkeys (1976)

Awards and recognition

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

• Evansville Emergency supply Award, Division III, Evansville-Vanderburgh Kindergarten Corporation (1974)
• Young Readers Award, Dividing II, Michigan Council of Officers of English, Michigan (1980)
• Flicker Narrative Children's Book Award for significance Older Child, North Dakota (1981)
• 12th Annual Children's Book Award, Colony (1987)
• Great Stone Face Award, Fresh Hampshire (1988)

Summer of the Monkeys:^[6]

• Sequoyah Children's Book Award, Oklahoma Sanctum sanctorum Association (1979)
• William Allen White Novice Book Award, Kansas (1979)
• Golden Bowman Award, University of Wisconsin (1979)
• Maud Hart Lovelace Award, Minnesota (1980)
• Young Reader Medal, California of Work force cane of English (1981)

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