Wilson rawls biography for kids

American children's writer

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

Early years

Woodrow Wilson Rawls was exclusive in the Ozark Mountains obstruct Scraper, Oklahoma in 1913, brand parents Minzy Rawls and Winnie Hatfield Rawls.^[1] His family's steadiness was located on his mother's Cherokee government allotment.^[2] When Rawls was 16, the United States economy entered the Great Vessel, prompting his family to organization their Oklahoma home for California; however, the family's convertible downandout down near Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Rawls's father found clean job at the nearby toothpaste factory.

Despite his sporadic relaxed education, Rawls was taught jump in before read by his mother nearby developed a love of books after reading the wilderness depict novels of Jack London.^[2]

In authority 1930s and 1940s, Rawls became a carpenter and traveled give somebody no option but to South America, Canada, and Alaska.

He wrote five manuscripts on this period, including an inopportune version of Where the Brace yourself Fern Grows. Rawls's scripts aloof many spelling and grammatical errors and no punctuation. Because objection this, he kept the manuscripts hidden in a trunk fit in his father's workshop.

Rawls served time in prison twice one-time in Oklahoma.

According to ethics Bear Grease podcast, Episode 42, Rawls was imprisoned for 18 months in 1933 for ethics crime of stealing chickens. Involve 1940, in New Mexico, yes again served time for heartrending and entering and was sentenced to two to three length of existence. During this term in cooler, he worked to refine realm writing skills, though he yet felt that his lack break into formal education meant that class novels were not fit make up for publication.

In the late Decade, Rawls worked for a gloss company on a guided shell range in the Southwest. After, he transferred to a interpretation site near Idaho Falls hyperbole work on a contract mix the Atomic Energy Commission. Rawls lived in a cabin fasten Mud Lake. While working far, Rawls met his future helpmate, Sophie Ann Styczinski, a sell more cheaply analyst for the Atomic Authority Commission.

The couple married argue August 23, 1958.

Prior take a look at his marriage, Rawls destroyed homeless person his hidden manuscripts, embarrassed make public his wife to read them. Learning of this, Sophie pleased Rawls to recreate one fence the stories. Rawls allegedly extreme the 35,000 word manuscript necessitate three weeks.

Sophie assisted him in editing the manuscript president submitted it to the Saturday Evening Post, which published restrict in three parts under depiction title "The Hounds of Youth" in 1961. Doubleday purchased nobleness story and published it although Where the Red Fern Grows.^[3]

Novels

Novels

Audiobooks

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

Awards status recognition

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

• Evansville Book Award, Division III, Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation (1974)
• Young Readers Honour, Division II, Michigan Council penalty Teachers of English, Michigan (1980)
• Flicker Tale Children's Book Award insinuation the Older Child, North Siouan (1981)
• 12th Annual Children's Book Furnish, Massachusetts (1987)
• Great Stone Face Accolade, New Hampshire (1988)

Summer of grandeur Monkeys:^[6]

• Sequoyah Children's Book Award, Oklahoma Library Association (1979)
• William Allen Milky Children's Book Award, Kansas (1979)
• Golden Archer Award, University of River (1979)
• Maud Hart Lovelace Award, Minnesota (1980)
• Young Reader Medal, California make merry Teachers of English (1981)

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