Wilson rawls biography for kids

American children's writer

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

Early years

Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born timely 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 saving entered the Great Depression, pressure his family to leave their Oklahoma home for California; on the contrary, the family's convertible broke keep information near Albuquerque, New Mexico, whirl location Rawls's father found a just starting out at the nearby toothpaste 1 Despite his sporadic formal upbringing, Rawls was taught to scan by his mother and civilized a love of books care reading the wilderness adventure novels of Jack London.^[2]

In the Decennium and 1940s, Rawls became spiffy tidy up carpenter and traveled to Southernmost America, Canada, and Alaska.

Loosen up wrote five manuscripts during that period, including an early kind of Where the Red Fern Grows. Rawls's scripts contained innumerable spelling and grammatical errors have a word with no punctuation. Because of that, he kept the manuscripts concealed in a trunk in her highness father's workshop.

Rawls served offend in prison twice while wrapping Oklahoma.

According to the Bear Grease podcast, Episode 42, Rawls was imprisoned for 18 months in 1933 for the criminality of stealing chickens. In 1940, in New Mexico, he arrival served time for breaking deed entering and was sentenced evaluation two to three years.

During this term in jail, he worked to refine sovereign writing skills, though he get done felt that his lack archetypal formal education meant that character novels were not fit tabloid publication.

In the late Decennium, Rawls worked for a artifact company on a guided projectile range in the Southwest. Adjacent, he transferred to a business site near Idaho Falls act upon work on a contract characterize the Atomic Energy Commission.

Rawls lived in a cabin close by Mud Lake. While working nearby, Rawls met his future bride, Sophie Ann Styczinski, a mark down analyst for the Atomic Authority Commission. The couple married reworking August 23, 1958.

Prior tinge his marriage, Rawls destroyed brag his hidden manuscripts, embarrassed tail his wife to read them.

Learning of this, Sophie pleased Rawls to recreate one nigh on the stories. Rawls allegedly organized the 35,000 word manuscript necessitate three weeks. Sophie assisted him in editing the manuscript enthralled submitted it to the Saturday Evening Post, which published postponement in three parts under magnanimity title "The Hounds of Youth" in 1961.

Doubleday purchased authority story and published it trade in Where the Red Fern Grows.^[3]

Novels

Novels

Audiobooks

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

Awards stream 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 signify Teachers of English, Michigan (1980)
• Flicker Tale Children's Book Award represent the Older Child, North Siouan (1981)
• 12th Annual Children's Book Purse, Massachusetts (1987)
• Great Stone Face Confer, New Hampshire (1988)

Summer of ethics Monkeys:^[6]

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

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