"Before she settled in the scrub country, Marjorie Rawlings had been a newspaperwoman in Louisville Kentucky, and Rochester New York. Tiring of a life that seemed "scrappy and always in a hurry," she turned her hand unsuccessfully to short-story writing. She had almost given up when, at 32, she used a small legacy to buy her 72-acre orange grove at Cross Creek. The people and the country inspired her to continue writing. Increasingly, her fiction reflected her deepening knowledge of her chosen patch of earth. Two prizewinning stories were followed by two highly praised novels; her third novel, The Yearling, won its author a Pulitzer Prize and a delighted following the world over."
- The Editors of Time
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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American novelist (1896–1953)
| Born | 8 August 1896 |
| Died | 14 December 1953 |
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American novelist (1896–1953)
| Born | 8 August 1896 |
| Died | 14 December 1953 |
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Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, American literature, Farm life, Social life and customs, American Short stories, Classic Literature, Florida, fiction, Human-animal relationships, Readers, American Authors, Bears, Boys, Children's literature, Coming of age, Correspondence, Deer, Deer as pets, Dialects, English language, Folklore, Legends and stories, Literature, Parent and childPlaces
Florida, United States, Boston, Cross Creek, Ocala, Volusia, California, Cross Creek (Fla.), Doc Wilson, England, Ezra Baxter, Flag, Fodder-wing Forrester, Forresters, Glendale College Library, Illinois River, Jody Baxter, Julia, Justice of the Peace Court, Lofoten, Michigan, New England, Northern England, Norway, OklahomaPeople
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953), Doc Wilson, Ezra Baxter, Flag, Fodder-wing Forrester, Forresters, Jody Baxter, Julia, Ora Baxter, Perk, Rip, Abner Snopes, Billy Colman, Boston, Catherine Earnshaw, Cathy Linton, E. B. White (1899- ,), E. B. White (1899-), Edgar Linton, Florida, Grandpa, Heathcliff, Hindley Earnshaw, Isabella Linton, Jonas Danilssønn RamusID Numbers
- OLID: OL18973A
- ISNI: 0000000120285179
- VIAF: 73859015
- Wikidata: Q465237
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q465237
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- Marjorie Rawlings
- Majorie Kinnan Rawlings
- Marjorie Kinnan-Rawlings
- Marjorie K. Rawlings
- M K Rawlings
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