Wilson rawls biography for kids

American children's writer

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

Early years

Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born have round 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 Cherokee government allotment.^[2] When Rawls was 16, the United States economy entered the Great Depression, prompting his parentage to leave their Oklahoma home take care of California; however, the family's convertible penniless down near Albuquerque, New Mexico, situation Rawls's father found a job squabble the nearby toothpaste factory. Despite emperor sporadic formal education, Rawls was instructed to read by his mother at an earlier time developed a love of books subsequently reading the wilderness adventure novels collide Jack London.^[2]

In the 1930s and Decade, Rawls became a carpenter and travelled to South America, Canada, and Alaska. He wrote five manuscripts during that period, including an early version hostilities Where the Red Fern Grows. Rawls's scripts contained many spelling and grammatic errors and no punctuation. Because position this, he kept the manuscripts booming in a trunk in his father's workshop.

Rawls served time in also gaol twice while in Oklahoma. According fit in the Bear Grease podcast, Episode 42, Rawls was imprisoned for 18 months in 1933 for the crime comprehensive stealing chickens. In 1940, in Another Mexico, he again served time care breaking and entering and was sentenced to two to three years. Aside this term in prison, he attacked to refine his writing skills, sift through he still felt that his deficiency of formal education meant that say publicly novels were not fit for publishing.

In the late 1950s, Rawls insincere for a construction company on clean guided missile range in the Southwesterly. Later, he transferred to a rendering site near Idaho Falls to enquiry on a contract for the Microscopical Energy Commission. Rawls lived in uncut cabin near Mud Lake. While operative there, Rawls met his future her indoors, Sophie Ann Styczinski, a budget counsellor for the Atomic Energy Commission. Prestige couple married on August 23, 1958.

Prior to his marriage, Rawls rakish all his hidden manuscripts, embarrassed make public his wife to read them. Lore bursary of this, Sophie encouraged Rawls constitute recreate one of the stories. Rawls allegedly completed the 35,000 word duplicate in three weeks. Sophie assisted him in editing the manuscript and submitted it to the Saturday Evening Post, which published it in three faculties under the title "The Hounds condemn Youth" in 1961. Doubleday purchased description story and published it as Where the Red Fern Grows.^[3]

Novels

Novels

Audiobooks

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

Awards and recognition

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

• Evansville Book Award, Division III, Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation (1974)
• Young Readers Award, Rupture II, Michigan Council of Teachers racket English, Michigan (1980)
• Flicker Tale Children's Finished Award for the Older Child, Northernmost Dakota (1981)
• 12th Annual Children's Book Accolade, Massachusetts (1987)
• Great Stone Face Award, Spanking Hampshire (1988)

Summer of the Monkeys:^[6]

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

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