She reads books, does her homework, and practices her piano scales, all without being asked by her parents. To most adults, she's every parent's dream: obedient, well-groomed, and compliant. Outwardly, she is charming, polite and intelligent beyond her years. In 1954, the novel was adapted into a successful and long-running Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson and into an Academy Award-nominated film directed by Mervyn LeRoy in 1956.Įight-year-old Rhoda Penmark appears to be what every little girl brought up in a loving home should be. Its enormous critical and commercial success was largely realized after March's death only one month after publication. Nominated for the 1955 National Book Award for Fiction, The Bad Seed tells the story of a mother's realization that her young daughter is a murderer.
The Bad Seed is a 1954 novel by American writer William March, the last of his major works published before his death.
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