Educated at Radcliffe College, Field had already begun to write as a child and contributed stories to periodicals such as St. Nicholas Magazine. Her first success came with Hitty: Her First Hundred Years in 1929, a children's book which won the John Newberry Medal. She produced a large quantity of children's books, but was equally famous for her adult novels, the best-known of which was the best-selling All This and Heaven Too (1938). In 1935, she married the literary agent Arthur S. Pederson and they spent a great deal of time in Maine, which is used as a setting in a number of her works. She underwent major surgery and died after developing pneumonia at the age of 47. Her works include Eliza and the Elves (1926), Pocket-handkerchief Park (1929), Pointed People (1930), Calico Bush (1931), Birds Began to Sing (1932), Just Across the Street (1933), Time Out of Mind (1935), Fear is the Thorn (1936), All Through the Night (1940) and And Now Tomorrow (1942). |
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