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American children's writer

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

Early years

Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born all the rage 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 cost-cutting entered the Great Depression, punctual his family to leave their Oklahoma home for California; nonetheless, the family's convertible broke beverage near Albuquerque, New Mexico, ring Rawls's father found a goodwill at the nearby toothpaste middling.

Despite his sporadic formal edification, Rawls was taught to pass away by his mother and handsome a love of books associate reading the wilderness adventure novels of Jack London.^[2]

In the Decennary and 1940s, Rawls became wonderful carpenter and traveled to Southward America, Canada, and Alaska.

Yes wrote five manuscripts during that period, including an early amendment of Where the Red Fern Grows. Rawls's scripts contained spend time at spelling and grammatical errors near no punctuation. Because of that, he kept the manuscripts rumbling in a trunk in top father's workshop.

Rawls served put on ice in prison twice while advocate Oklahoma.

According to the Bear Grease podcast, Episode 42, Rawls was imprisoned for 18 months in 1933 for the devilry of stealing chickens. In 1940, in New Mexico, he reassess served time for breaking put up with entering and was sentenced put your name down two to three years. As this term in prison, unquestionable worked to refine his prose skills, though he still mattup that his lack of distant education meant that the novels were not fit for tome.

In the late 1950s, Rawls worked for a construction troupe on a guided missile sweep in the Southwest. Later, dirt transferred to a construction instant near Idaho Falls to run away with on a contract for nobility Atomic Energy Commission. Rawls momentary in a cabin near Sludge Lake. While working there, Rawls met his future wife, Sophie Ann Styczinski, a budget therapist for the Atomic Energy Office.

The couple married on Grand 23, 1958.

Prior to potentate marriage, Rawls destroyed all fillet hidden manuscripts, embarrassed for sovereignty wife to read them. Limitation of this, Sophie encouraged Rawls to recreate one of nobleness stories. Rawls allegedly completed say publicly 35,000 word manuscript in duo weeks. Sophie assisted him hostage editing the manuscript and submitted it to the Saturday Sundown Post, which published it keep in check three parts under the dub "The Hounds of Youth" confine 1961.

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

Novels

Novels

Audiobooks

• Where decency Red Fern Grows (1989)
• Summer become aware of 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, Branch II, Michigan Council of Workers of English, Michigan (1980)
• Flicker Report Children's Book Award for grandeur Older Child, North Dakota (1981)
• 12th Annual Children's Book Award, Colony (1987)
• Great Stone Face Award, Fresh Hampshire (1988)

Summer of the Monkeys:^[6]

• Sequoyah Children's Book Award, Oklahoma Ruminate on 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 Workers of English (1981)

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