"It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. It is a moving adventure story and yet a tragically haunting tale of friendship between a young boy and his beloved coon hunting dogs. Where the Red Fern Grows, published in 1961, by Wilson Rawls, is a classic novel that endures in the heart and mind ever after. Rawls died in 1984 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Rawls wrote (and Sophie edited) one more book, The Summer of the Monkeys, in 1976.
By the late 1960s, word-of-mouth helped the book become a classic for young readers. His wife edited his grammar and, after serialization in the "Saturday Evening Post," Doubleday published the novel in 1961. In a three-week burst, Rawls wrote Where the Red Fern Grows, a highly autobiographical and poignant account of a boy, his two hounds, and raccoon-hunting in the Ozark Mountains. He later revealed his literary desires to his wife, Sophie, and she encouraged him to keep writing. In 1958, he gave up on his dream and burned all his work. He wrote stories while he traveled, but his lack of formal education hampered his grammar, and he could not sell anything.
His family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1935, and he came home each fall to work and hunt. His mother home-schooled her children, and after Rawls read Jack London's canine-centered tale Call of the Wild, he decided to become a writer.īut the Great Depression hit the United States in 1929, and Rawls left home to find work. Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 1913, in the Ozark country of Scraper, Oklahoma.
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