Rachel Lyman Field (September 19, 1894 – March 15, 1942)[1] was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer.
Calico Bush [1931] still stands out as a near-perfect re-creation of people and place in a story of courage, understated and beautiful.
Field also wrote the English lyrics for the version of Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria" used in the Disney film Fantasia (1940).
[9] The 1944 (posthumous) Prayer for a Child, with a story by Field and illustrations by Elizabeth Orton Jones, won the Caldecott Medal recognizing the year's "most distinguished picture book for children" published in the U.S.[10] Hitty and Prayer for a Child were both named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list of books deemed to belong "on the same bookshelf" with Carroll's Alice.
Time Out of Mind won one of the inaugural National Book Awards as the Most Distinguished Novel of 1935, voted by the American Booksellers Association.