Author

The author of Where the Red Fern Grows is Wilson Rawls. Written by Elisabeth G.

Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 1913, in Scraper, Oklahoma to Minzy and Winnie Rawls. He lived on a farm in Ozark Mountians, the settings that he described in his books. He wrote //Where The Red Fern Grows// in 1961 at the age of 48, and //Summer of The Monkeys// in 1976, at the age of 63. He married Sophie Ann Styczinski on August 23, 1958. They never had any children. Wilson Rawls died on December 16, 1984 with only one regret, that he coldn't take a copy of one of his books to his father and say, "It took a long time Dad, but I made it".