Rebecca Caudill
Rebecca Caudill was born in Cumberland, Kentucky, United States on February 2nd, 1899 and is the Children's Author. At the age of 86, Rebecca Caudill biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Rebecca Caudill Ayars (1899-1985), an American author of children's literature, had more than 20 books published.
The Tree of Freedom (Viking, 1949) was a Newbery Honor Book.
A Pocketful of Cricket (Holt, 1964), illustrated by Evaline Ness, was a Caldecott Honor Book.
Life
Caudill was one of eleven children in Susan and George Caudill's family's Harlan County, Kentucky. She was born in Poor Fork, now Cumberland, Kentucky. She graduated from Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, and then taught English and history 1920–21 at Sumner County High School in Portland, Tennessee. Vanderbilt University's Master's Degree in International Relations was awarded in 1922. She worked in Brazil for two years (ESL), then moved to Tennessee, where she served briefly as an editor for Abingdon Press, the Methodist Church publishing house in Nashville. She took a job in a publishing house in Chicago and married James Sterling Ayars in 1931. They and their two children moved to Urbana, Illinois, in 1937.
Barrie and Daughter, Caudill's first book, appeared in 1943, after she recalled her childhood in the hill country of Kentucky and Tennessee. The majority of her children's books brought alive the pioneering period of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, evinking Appalachia's rich history. "Doors in my Appalachia homes were never locked against a stranger or a stranger," she wrote in her memoir. People discovered their pleasures in simple everyday activities. They had a kind of profound wisdom that was typical of those who live close to Nature, those who walk in step with Nature's rhythm, and those who depend on Nature for everything else."