Hitty, Her First Hundred Years

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. Read more →