RACHEL FIELD

'Rachel Lyman Field Pederson' (September 19, 1894 – March 15, 1942) was an American novelist, poet, and author of children's fiction. She is best known for her Newbery Medal–winning novel for young adults, ''Hitty, Her First Hundred Years'', published in 1929. Born in New York City, as a child Field contributed to the St. Nicholas Magazine and was educated at Radcliffe College. Her book, Prayer for a Child, was a recipent of the Caldecott Medal for its illustrations by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Field was also a successful author of adult fiction, writing the bestsellers ''Time Out of Mind'' (1935), ''All This and Heaven Too'' (1938), and ''And Now Tomorrow'' (1942). She is also famous for her poem-turned-song "Something Told the Wild Geese". Field also wrote the English lyrics for the version of Franz Schubert's ''Ave Maria'' used in the Disney film ''Fantasia (film)''. Field married Arthur S. Pederson in 1935, with whom she collaborated in 1937 on ''To See Ourselves.''
Field was a descendant of David Dudley Field. She died at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, California on March 15, 1942 of pneumonia.