Background
Field, Rachel was born on September 19, 1894 in New York, New York, United States. Daughter of Matthew D. (Doctor of Medicine and Lucy (Atwater) Field.
Field, Rachel was born on September 19, 1894 in New York, New York, United States. Daughter of Matthew D. (Doctor of Medicine and Lucy (Atwater) Field.
Educational public schools. Special student Radcliffe, 1914-1918.
She is best known for the Newbery Award-winning Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. As a child, she contributed to the Saint Nicholas Magazine. According to Ruth Hill Viguers, 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 married Arthur South. Pederson in 1935, with whom she collaborated in 1937 on To See Ourselves.
In 1938 one of her plays was adapted for the British film The Londonderry Air. She was also successful as an author of adult fiction, writing the bestsellers Time Out of Mind (1935), All This and Heaven Too (1938), and And Now Tomorrow (1942).
They were adapted as films produced under their own titles in 1947, 1940, and 1944 respectively. Field also wrote the English lyrics for that version of Franz Schubert"s "Avenue Maria" used in the Disney film Fantasia.
Field is famous, too, for her poem-turned-song "Something Told the Wild Geese".
She also wrote a story about the nativity of Jesus, "All Through the Night". Rachel Field died at the Good Samaritan Hospital on March 15, 1942, of pneumonia following an operation.
Married Arthur South. Pederson, June 1935.