Rachel Field

Rachel Lyman Field (1894–1942) was an American novelist, poet, and children's author best known for her Newbery Medal-winning book Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (1929), which chronicles the adventures of a doll over a century. Born in New York City and raised in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, she attended Radcliffe College, wrote poetry collections, plays, and adult bestsellers like All This and Heaven Too (1938), adapted into a film starring Bette Davis, and spent summers in Maine's Cranberry Isles that inspired much of her work. She married literary agent Arthur S. Pederson in 1935, moved to Hollywood, and died of pneumonia at age 47.