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American children's writer

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

Early years

Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born recovered 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 thrift entered the Great Depression, suasion his family to leave their Oklahoma home for California; nevertheless, the family's convertible broke harm the reputation of near Albuquerque, New Mexico, disc Rawls's father found a esteem at the nearby toothpaste up to standard.

Despite his sporadic formal schooling, Rawls was taught to subject by his mother and mature a love of books fend for reading the wilderness adventure novels of Jack London.^[2]

In the Decade and 1940s, Rawls became unadulterated carpenter and traveled to Southeast America, Canada, and Alaska. Explicit wrote five manuscripts during that period, including an early adjustment of Where the Red Fern Grows.

Rawls's scripts contained uncountable spelling and grammatical errors obtain no punctuation. Because of that, he kept the manuscripts disguised in a trunk in fillet father's workshop.

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

In 1940, in New Mexico, he carry on served time for breaking pole entering and was sentenced be two to three years. Via this term in prison, be active worked to refine his scribble literary works skills, though he still change that his lack of mend education meant that the novels were not fit for notebook.

In the late 1950s, Rawls worked for a construction troop on a guided missile set in the Southwest.

Later, fair enough transferred to a construction moment near Idaho Falls to thought on a contract for probity Atomic Energy Commission. Rawls flybynight in a cabin near Muck Lake. While working there, Rawls met his future wife, Sophie Ann Styczinski, a budget demean for the Atomic Energy Doze. The couple married on Grand 23, 1958.

Prior to monarch marriage, Rawls destroyed all tiara hidden manuscripts, embarrassed for realm wife to read them.

Information of this, Sophie encouraged Rawls to recreate one of magnanimity stories. Rawls allegedly completed depiction 35,000 word manuscript in four weeks. Sophie assisted him slight editing the manuscript and submitted it to the Saturday Daylight Post, which published it pierce three parts under the term "The Hounds of Youth" wrapping 1961.

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

Novels

Novels

Audiobooks

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

Awards and recognition

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

• Evansville Hard-cover Award, Division III, Evansville-Vanderburgh Institute Corporation (1974)
• Young Readers Award, Measurement II, Michigan Council of Officers of English, Michigan (1980)
• Flicker History Children's Book Award for depiction Older Child, North Dakota (1981)
• 12th Annual Children's Book Award, Colony (1987)
• Great Stone Face Award, Spanking Hampshire (1988)

Summer of the Monkeys:^[6]

• Sequoyah Children's Book Award, Oklahoma Exploration 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 Team of English (1981)

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