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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.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park. This authentic Florida Cracker homestead inspired a Pulitzer Prize winning author. Hours. Park grounds, including farmyard and trails, are open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Access to the interior of the farmhouse is by guided tour only.
Awards And Honors: Pulitzer Prize. Notable Works: “Cross Creek”. “The Yearling”. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (born Aug. 8, 1896, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died Dec. 14, 1953, St. Augustine, Fla.) was an American short-story writer and novelist who founded a regional literature of backwoods Florida.
May 10, 2021 · By Dwight Garner. May 10, 2021. “If you like the book, I shall drink a quart of Bacardi in celebration,” Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote to Maxwell Perkins before sending him her first novel...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society. The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society honors the memory and celebrates the life and work of the author of such widely read and respected books as the 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Yearling, and the 1942 nonfiction classic, Cross Creek.
The Friends of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Farm, Inc. are a Citizens Support Organization whose mission is to support the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) was a well-known American writer of the 1930s and ‘40s who drew material for her stories from the rugged Alachua County region and, in particular, a small unincorporated community of Cross Creek, situated about 20 miles southeast of Gainesville.
