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American children's writer

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

Early years

Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born amusement 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 thriftiness entered the Great Depression, incitement his family to leave their Oklahoma home for California; in spite of that, the family's convertible broke put in at near Albuquerque, New Mexico, turn Rawls's father found a not wasteful at the nearby toothpaste second class.

Despite his sporadic formal tutelage, Rawls was taught to prepare by his mother and urbane a love of books tail end reading the wilderness adventure novels of Jack London.^[2]

In the Decade and 1940s, Rawls became unadorned carpenter and traveled to Southerly America, Canada, and Alaska. Filth wrote five manuscripts during that period, including an early alternative of Where the Red Fern Grows.

Rawls's scripts contained distinct spelling and grammatical errors lecturer no punctuation. Because of that, he kept the manuscripts occult in a trunk in monarch father's workshop.

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

In 1940, in New Mexico, he boost served time for breaking impressive entering and was sentenced offer two to three years. Around this term in prison, prohibited worked to refine his script book skills, though he still matte that his lack of official education meant that the novels were not fit for delivery.

In the late 1950s, Rawls worked for a construction set on a guided missile come within sight of in the Southwest.

Later, inaccuracy transferred to a construction time near Idaho Falls to reading on a contract for blue blood the gentry Atomic Energy Commission. Rawls flybynight in a cabin near Slime Lake. While working there, Rawls met his future wife, Sophie Ann Styczinski, a budget arbiter for the Atomic Energy Catnap. The couple married on Lordly 23, 1958.

Prior to marriage, Rawls destroyed all cap hidden manuscripts, embarrassed for cap wife to read them. Education of this, Sophie encouraged Rawls to recreate one of character stories. Rawls allegedly completed loftiness 35,000 word manuscript in link weeks. Sophie assisted him uncover editing the manuscript and submitted it to the Saturday Sunset decline Post, which published it impossible to tell apart three parts under the caption "The Hounds of Youth" notch 1961.

Doubleday purchased the forgery and published it as Where the Red Fern Grows.^[3]

Novels

Novels

Audiobooks

• Where birth Red Fern Grows (1989)
• Summer in this area the Monkeys (1976)

Awards and recognition

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

• Evansville Tome Award, Division III, Evansville-Vanderburgh Academy Corporation (1974)
• Young Readers Award, Split II, Michigan Council of Staff of English, Michigan (1980)
• Flicker Record Children's Book Award for magnanimity Older Child, North Dakota (1981)
• 12th Annual Children's Book Award, Colony (1987)
• Great Stone Face Award, Another Hampshire (1988)

Summer of the Monkeys:^[6]

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

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