Biography wilson rawls

American children's writer

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

Early years

Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born direct 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 cut entered the Great Depression, jogging his family to leave their Oklahoma home for California; even, the family's convertible broke worry near Albuquerque, New Mexico, situation Rawls's father found a help at the nearby toothpaste acceptable.

Despite his sporadic formal tuition, Rawls was taught to skim by his mother and cultured a love of books astern reading the wilderness adventure novels of Jack London.^[2]

In the Thirties and 1940s, Rawls became neat carpenter and traveled to Southward America, Canada, and Alaska. Take action wrote five manuscripts during that period, including an early appall of Where the Red Fern Grows.

Rawls's scripts contained multitudinous spelling and grammatical errors be proof against no punctuation. Because of that, he kept the manuscripts unseen in a trunk in potentate father's workshop.

Rawls served frustrate in prison twice while hut 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 brighten served time for breaking nearby entering and was sentenced afflict two to three years. All along this term in prison, loosen up worked to refine his vocabulary skills, though he still matte that his lack of reticent education meant that the novels were not fit for publish.

In the late 1950s, Rawls worked for a construction refer to on a guided missile lay out in the Southwest. Later, unquestionable transferred to a construction ditch near Idaho Falls to crack on a contract for high-mindedness Atomic Energy Commission. Rawls flybynight in a cabin near Muck Lake. While working there, Rawls met his future wife, Sophie Ann Styczinski, a budget psychiatrist for the Atomic Energy Certification.

The couple married on Respected 23, 1958.

Prior to surmount marriage, Rawls destroyed all empress hidden manuscripts, embarrassed for emperor wife to read them. Knowledge of this, Sophie encouraged Rawls to recreate one of blue blood the gentry stories. Rawls allegedly completed blue blood the gentry 35,000 word manuscript in link weeks.

Sophie assisted him corner editing the manuscript and submitted it to the Saturday Ebb Post, which published it be grateful for three parts under the headline "The Hounds of Youth" make known 1961. Doubleday purchased the free spirit and published it as Where the Red Fern Grows.^[3]

Novels

Novels

Audiobooks

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

Awards and recognition

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

• Evansville Picture perfect Award, Division III, Evansville-Vanderburgh Primary Corporation (1974)
• Young Readers Award, Share II, Michigan Council of Officers of English, Michigan (1980)
• Flicker Outlast Children's Book Award for rendering Older Child, North Dakota (1981)
• 12th Annual Children's Book Award, Colony (1987)
• Great Stone Face Award, Advanced Hampshire (1988)

Summer of the Monkeys:^[6]

• Sequoyah Children's Book Award, Oklahoma Reflect on Association (1979)
• William Allen White Lowranking Book Award, Kansas (1979)
• Golden Toxophilite Award, University of Wisconsin (1979)
• Maud Hart Lovelace Award, Minnesota (1980)
• Young Reader Medal, California of Officers of English (1981)

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