![]() ![]() Her greatest work is, perhaps, All This and Heaven Too published in 1938 which was adapted by Casey Robinson into a popular film starring Bette Davies in 1940.įield married the literary agent Arthur Pederson and had a daughter Hanna in 1939.įield died in the Good Samaritan Hospital, Beverley Hills on 15 March 1942 of pneumonia following a major operation. Like many of her books the setting was Maine an area she knew well. She recieved the journals from his grandson who she met whilst berrying and with whom she struck up a friendship. She progressed to more serious / adult novels such as God's Pocket which is the story of Captain Samuel Hadlock, Jnr written from his own journals. It is the life story of a wooden doll carved for a young girl from Maine. ![]() ![]() The Newberry Medal is awarded by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year. Initially she was a writer of children's books and she gained initial fame as an author with her book "Hitty, her first hundred years" which won the John Newberry Medal in 1930. Rachel Lyman Field was born on 18 September 1894 in New York city and was educated at Radcliffe. ![]()
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