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 St. Augustine, Florida, U.S. | (aged 57)
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.