Rachel Field

Rachel Field

Rachel Lyman Field Pederson (September 19, 1894March 15, 1942) was an American novelist, poet, and author of children's fiction. She is best known for her Newbery Medal–winning novel for young adults, "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years", published in 1929.

Born in New York,New York, as a child Field contributed to the St. Nicholas Magazine and was educated at Radcliffe College. Her book, Prayer for a Child, was a recipient of the Caldecott Medal for its illustrations by Elizabeth Orton Jones. According to Ruth Hill Vigeurs in her introduction to Rachel Field's children's book Calico Bush published in 1931, Rachel Field was "fifteen when she first visited Maine and fell under the spell of its 'island-scattered coast'. Calico Bush still stands out as a near-perfect re-creation of people and place in a story of courage, understated and beautiful."Field was also a successful author of adult fiction, writing the bestsellers "Time Out of Mind" (1935), "All This and Heaven Too" (1938), and "And Now Tomorrow" (1942). She is also famous for her poem-turned-song "Something Told the Wild Geese". Field also wrote the English lyrics for the version of Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria" used in the Disney film "Fantasia (film)". Field married Arthur S. Pederson in 1935, with whom she collaborated in 1937 on "To See Ourselves."

Field was a descendant of David Dudley Field. She died at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, California on March 15, 1942 of pneumonia following an operation.

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