Field, Rachel (1894-1942), was an American author. She is best known for her books for children.
Field won a Newbery Medal in 1930 for Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (1929), a story of a doll’s adventures. Hitty is based on an antique doll that Field and the book’s illustrator, Dorothy P. Lathrop, found in a shop in New York City. Field also wrote Calico Bush (1931), a children’s novel about pioneer life. Her books of poetry include Taxis and Toadstools (1926). She also wrote several plays for children. Among the novels that Field wrote for adults are All This and Heaven Too (1938) and And Now Tomorrow (1942).
Field was born on Sept. 19, 1894, in New York City. She died on March 15, 1942.
