Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings | |
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 Rawlings in 1953 | |
| Born | Marjorie Kinnan August 8, 1896 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | December 14, 1953 (aged 57) St. Augustine, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | University of Wisconsin, Madison (BA) |
| Period | 1928–1953 |
| Genre | Fiction, Florida history |
| Spouses | Charles Rawlings
(m. 1919; div. 1933)Norton Baskin (m. 1941) |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953)[1] was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939[2] and was later made into a movie of the same name. The book was written before the concept of young adult fiction arose, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.
- ^ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House and Farm Yard, Women's History Month 2006-A National Register of Historic Places Feature; accessed December 8, 2014.
- ^ "1939 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prize. 2019. Retrieved June 9, 2019.