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(1894-1942) Writer, novelist, poet. Rachel Field was born on East 40th Street in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Rachel Field

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1894

BIRTH

Rachel Lyman Field was born on East 40th Street, New York, New York, in 1894. She married Arthur S. Pederson in 1935.

1927

LITWORK

The Cross-Stitch Heart and Other One-Act Plays


Six one-act plays.

1929

LITWORK

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years
New York: The Macmillan Company.

Novel for young adults. Winner of the Newbery Medal in 1930.

1931

LITWORK

Calico Bush
New York: Macmillan.

Children's novel.

1932

LITWORK

Hepatica Hawks


Children's novel.

1935

LITWORK

Time Out of Mind


Novel.

1937

LITWORK

To See Ourselves


Novel; written with her husband.

1938

LITWORK

All this And Heaven Too


Novel.

1942

DEATH

Rachel Field died in Los Angeles, California, in 1942.

1942

LITWORK

And Now Tomorrow


Novel.

1944

LITWORK

Prayer for a Child
New York: The Macmillan Company.

Childrens' picture book. Illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones, it won a Caldecott Medal in 1945.

1957

LITWORK

Poems


Collection of poetry.

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