Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896–1953, American author, b. Washington, D.C., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1918. She was a journalist until 1928, when she moved to the Florida backwoods, where most of her novels are set. Cross Creek (1942) is a humorous autobiographical account of her life there. The Yearling (1938; Pulitzer Prize), is the story of a boy and his pet deer. Her other novels include South Moon Under (1933), Golden Apples (1935), and The Sojourner (1953).

Bibliography

See her correspondence with Maxwell Perkins (2000).

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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

 orig. Marjorie Kinnan

(born Aug. 8, 1896, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died Dec. 14, 1953, St. Augustine, Fla.) U.S. short-story writer and novelist. Rawlings worked as a journalist before moving to backwoods Florida and devoting herself to fiction. Taking her material from the people and land around her, she wrote richly atmospheric works that resemble vivid factual reporting and are noted for their magical descriptions of landscape. Her best-known novel is The Yearling (1938, Pulitzer Prize), about a boy from a hardscrabble family and the fawn he adopts. Her later works include Cross Creek (1942) and The Sojourner (1953).