Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Rawlings in 1953
Rawlings in 1953
BornMarjorie Kinnan
(1896-08-08)August 8, 1896
Washington, D.C., U.S.
DiedDecember 14, 1953(1953-12-14) (aged 57)
St. Augustine, Florida, U.S.
OccupationWriter
EducationUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison (BA)
Period1928–1953
GenreFiction, 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.

  1. ^ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House and Farm Yard, Women's History Month 2006-A National Register of Historic Places Feature; accessed December 8, 2014.
  2. ^ "1939 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prize. 2019. Retrieved June 9, 2019.