Rawls is also the author of Summer of the Monkeys, which was published in 1976. Having sold well over seven million copies, it is popular reading for school-aged children and has been lauded with the Evansville Book Award, the Great Stone Face Award, and more accolades. Where the Red Fern Grows is Rawls’s most widely known work. Where the Red Fern Grows was published in 1961 to great acclaim-the semi-autobiographical novel is based on Rawls’s childhood roaming the Ozarks with his pet bluetick hound. He wrote throughout his travels and eventually settled down in Idaho, where he married his wife and began turning his manuscripts into novels. Rawls himself became a carpenter and lived an itinerant existence throughout North and South America, taking odd jobs and even serving time in prison. The financial collapse forced his family to move westward in search of work. Wilson Rawls was born in the Oklahoma Ozarks and came of age during the Great Depression.
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