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Rachel Lyman Field (1894–1942) was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer. She is best known for the Newbery Award-winning ''Hitty, Her First Hundred Years''. Field also won a National Book Award, Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list. ==Life== Field was a descendant of David Dudley Field, the early New England clergyman and writer. She grew up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. As a child, she contributed to the ''St. Nicholas Magazine''. She was educated at Radcliffe College. 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."〔Ruth Hill Viguers, "Introduction" (date?) to ''Calico Bush'' by Rachel Field (1931).〕 Field married Arthur S. 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''.〔 (Rachel Field ) at Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2012-03-15.〕 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 "Ave Maria" used in the Disney film ''Fantasia''.〔''Fantasia'', end screen credits, last segment "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria".〕 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". She moved to Hollywood, where she lived with her husband and two children.〔''Newbery Medal Books: 1922–1955'', eds. Bertha Mahony Miller and Elinor Whitney Field, The Horn Book, Inc., 1955, LOC 55-13968, pp. 77–85.〕 Rachel Field died at the Good Samaritan Hospital on March 15, 1942, of pneumonia following an operation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rachel Field」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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