Rachel Lyman Field

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Rachel Lyman Field (September 19, 1894 New York City – March 15, 1942 Los Angeles, California) was an American novelist, poet, and author of children's fiction. She is best known for her Newbery Medal–winning novel for young adults, "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years", published in 1929.

Field was also a successful author of adult fiction, writing the bestsellers Time Out of Mind (1935), All This and Heaven Too (1938), and And Now Tomorrow (1942). She is also famous for her poem-turned-song "Something Told the Wild Geese". Field also wrote the English lyrics for the version of Franz Schubert's Ave Maria used in the Disney film Fantasia. Field married Arthur S. Pederson in 1935, with whom she collaborated in 1937 on To See Ourselves. She also wrote a story about the nativity of Jesus Christ titled "All Through the Night".