Rachel Lyman Field was an American novelist, poet, and children's fiction writer. She is best known for her work Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. Field also won a National Book Award, a Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list. No. 1 on The New York Times Fiction best seller list for 5 weeks, from the issue of June 15, 1942. Wiki link