Rachel Field Peterson - Stockbridge, MA
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The grave of American poet, novelist, playwright, and award winning children's fiction writer, Rachel Field (Peterson) is located in Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, MA.
Waymark Code: WMX7VA
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 12/09/2017
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The grave of Rachel Field Peterson is marked by a repaired, gray headstone which is simply inscribed:
RACHEL FIELD PETERSON
1894 1942
Rachel Field was born in New York City on September 19, 1894. She attended Radcliff College. Her first poem The Pointed People was published in 1924 and she continued to publish under the name Rachel Field even after marrying literary agent Arthur S. Pederson in 1935. Other poems include Taxis And Toadstools (1926) and Fear Is the Thorn (1935).
In addition to writing poetry, Field wrote novel for adults, plays, lyrics, and was an award winning writer of children's novels. Her adult novels include Time Out of Mind (1935) and All This and Heaven Too (1938), which was turned into a movie starring Bette Davis and Charles Boyer.
Field was also a noted lyricist and playwright, she wrote the English lyrics for Franz Schubert’s Ave Maria that was included in the Disney film Fantasia. Her plays include Cinderella Married, A Comedy in One Act (1924), The Bad Penny: A Drama in One Act (1931), and First Class Matter: A Comedy in One Act (1936).
Rachel Field is best known as the winner of the Newberry Medal for children's literature, for Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (1930). Other chilren's books include and Calico Bush (1931), and God’s Pocket (1934). Her children's picture book Prayer for a Child (1944), illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones, won the 1945 Caldecott Medal.
Rachel Field died from pneumonia on March 15, 1942 in
Los Angeles, CA at age 47.