Rachel Field Quotes


Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.


Citations

Field, Rachel. And Now Tomorrow. Macmillan, 1942.

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  • Born: September 19, 1894
  • Died: March 15, 1942
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Rachel Lyman Field was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer. She is best known for the Newbery Award–winning Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. Field also won a National Book Award, Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list. In May of 2021, a complete biography of Rachel Field's life, written by author Robin Clifford Wood, will be published by She Writes Press.