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Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born in the Ozark Mountains near Scraper, Oklahoma in 1913, to parents Minzy Rawls and Winnie Hatfield Rawls. His family's farm was located on his mother's Cherokee government allotment.
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- Rawls was an unlikely bestselling author. “Woody” Rawls was born in Oklahoma’s Ozark Mountains in 1913. He was one of six children, and since there was no school in the area, most of the family’s education came from his mother.
- Another man-and-dog story inspired Rawls’ entire literary career. As a young child, Rawls wasn’t too interested in reading; he referred to stories like “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Chicken Little” as “girl stories”—he just couldn’t identify or connect with the mostly female protagonists.
- The lack of education hurt Rawls’ chances at publication. Although Rawls knew he wanted to be a writer from the time he was 9 or 10 years old, his unpolished command of spelling and punctuation doomed him in the eyes of prospective publishers.
- Rawls burned all of his manuscripts. Rawls eventually settled into life as a carpenter and moved to Idaho to work at a defense installation. While there, he met his wife, Sophie.
Rawls's childhood experiences in the eastern Oklahoma hills provided the material for his fictional characters and settings. Where the Red Fern Grows, about a country boy who finds and trains two hunting dogs, was twice adapted as a motion picture and released in 1974 and 2003.
Where the Red Fern Grows was published in 1961 to great acclaim—the semi-autobiographical novel is based on Rawls’s childhood roaming the Ozarks with his pet bluetick hound. Where the Red Fern Grows is Rawls’s most widely known work.
Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys and trains two Redbone Coonhounds for hunting. It's a work of autobiographical fiction based on Rawls' childhood in the Ozarks.
- Wilson Rawls, Willie Morris, Karin Winegar, Leroy Powell, James Baldwin, Margery Williams
- 1961
Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 1913 in the rural Ozark Mountains near Scraper, Oklahoma. His parents were Minzy Rawls and Winnie Hatfield Rawls. There were no schools near his home, so his mother taught her children.
Wilson Rawls was born in the Ozark Mountains, which spread out over eastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas, on September 24, 1913. Like his character Billy, Rawls spent a lot of time during his childhood exploring the nearby hills, accompanied by his hound.
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