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Woodrow Wilson Rawls (September 24, 1913 – December 16, 1984) was an American writer best known for his books Where the Red Fern Grows and Summer of the Monkeys.
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American author Wilson Rawls wrote only two books, but they have become classics in children’s literature. They appealed to young people, especially because of his fully developed animal characters. Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 1913, in Scraper, Oklahoma.
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- December 16, 1984
- September 24, 1913
- Where the Red Fern Grows.
- Summer of the Monkeys.
- Where the Red Fern Grows with Connections.
- Where the Red Fern Grows and Related Readings by Wilson Rawls, Joan Aiken, William Stafford.
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(Woodrow) Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 1913, in the Ozark country of Scraper, Oklahoma. His mother home-schooled her children, and after Rawls read Jack London's canine-centered tale Call of the Wild, he decided to become a writer.
But the Great Depression hit the Unites States in 1929, and Rawls left home to find work. His family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1935, and he came home each fall to work and hunt. He wrote stories while he traveled, but his lack of formal education hampered his grammar, and he could not sell anything. In 1958, he gave up on his dream and bu...
In a three-week burst, Rawls wrote Where the Red Fern Grows, a highly autobiographical and poignant account of a boy, his two hounds, and raccoon-hunting in the Ozark Mountains. His wife edited his grammar and, after serialization in the \"Saturday Evening Post,\" Doubleday published the novel in 1961. By the late 1960s, word-of-mouth helped the bo...
Wilson Rawls has 24 books on Goodreads with 727112 ratings. Wilson Rawls’s most popular book is Where the Red Fern Grows.
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RAWLS, WOODROW WILSON (1913–1984). Born in Scraper, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, on September 24, 1913, to Minzy O. and Winnie Hatfield Rawls, novelist and short-story writer Woodrow Wilson Rawls published a widely popular children's novel, Where the Red Fern Grows, in 1961.
