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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. 4.00. 68 ratings4 reviews. Florry and Mort struggle to survive the hardships of the Depression in Florida. 118 pages, Hardcover. First published January 1, 1950. Book details & editions.
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Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction | Kirkus Reviews. Reissue in single volume of a long short story from the collection, When The Whippoorwill published in 1940, by Scribner,... READ REVIEW. JACOB'S LADDER. by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 4, 1950.
- A Precocious Writer
- Marriage and Early Career
- Cross Creek, Florida
- Success and Upheaval
- The Yearling & Cross Creek
- A Cook at Heart
- Prominent Friendships
- Final Years
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and The Yearling on Film
- More About Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie’s father was an attorney for the U.S. Patent Office. Growing up outside Washington, D.C., the family lived on a farm. There, and in the nearby hills of Maryland and Virginia, Marjorie acquired the love of nature that would later permeate her writings. She began to sell stories under the name “Felicity” at age 11. As a teen, she had sketche...
Marjorie attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, pursuing a degree in English. She graduated in 1918, and one year later married her college sweetheart, Charles Rawlings, who she described as a “big blond newspaperman who grew up on Lake Ontario and wrote about yachting.” The two moved to Louisville, Kentucky, and both wrote for the Louisv...
In 1926, Marjorie and Charles visited his brother in the northern part of Florida, and there she had an epiphany. While out on a hunting trip, she became a bit lost, and it was a metaphor for her life. “Sitting on a log, my gunshots unanswered, trying to think of my directions, with no life, no movement anywhere, no sound but the single note of a t...
Marjorie was attracted to the eccentric locals of Cross Creek, but they were wary and at first resisted her eager questions and interest. Eventually they warmed to her, and she began recording detailed descriptions of the people, their dialect, the flora and fauna, and recipes. In 1931, after years of rejection, Scribner’s Magazinepublished two of ...
Perhaps recognized as Rawlings’ best-known piece of fiction, The Yearling was published in 1938. It tells the tale of a young Florida boy, Jody, and his pet fawn who he is forced to shoot after it’s caught eating his family’s crops. The Yearlingwas an instant bestseller and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939. The Yearlingmight now be seen as a “young adu...
Cross Creek Cookery waspublished in 1942, right on the heels of Cross Creek.A collection of recipes and lore reflecting the cuisine of her adopted home, some of its offerings aren’t for the feint of heart or the vegetarian-inclined. It includes recipes like ‘possum pie, alligator-tail steak, and turtle meat and eggs. Marjorie sometimes found writin...
Aside from a friendship with the legendary editor Maxwell Perkins, Rawlings had friendships with fellow writers Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Margaret Mitchell, and Zora Neale Hurston. Second husband Norton Baskin later wrote of her, “Marjorie was the shyest person I have ever known. This was always strange to me, as she coul...
Rawlings’ last novel for adults, The Sojourner, was published just before her death in 1953. Set in Michigan, this character study of a man and his relationship with his family was well received, but didn’t garner nearly the kind of attention that The Yearlingand the Cross Creek books had. The Secret River, the only book she specifically wrote for ...
The Yearlingcame out as a major Metro-Goldwyn Mayer film in 1946, starring Gregory Peck as Penny Baxter, Claude Jarman, Jr. as Jody, and Jane Wyman as Ma Baxter. Though the film was hugely successful in terms of box office gross and reception, it wasn’t very profitable due to high production costs. Though it was nominated for Best Picture, Actor, A...
On this site 1. A Talk with Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1941) 2. Culinary Wisdom from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 3. Dear Literary Ladies: Does one need connections to get published? 4. No-Nonsense Quotes by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 5. The Literary Friendship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Zora Neale Hurston Major works 1. South Moon Under (1933) 2. Th...
During the 1930’s and the 1940’s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s fiction was popular with the general public and acclaimed by critics. Her novella Jacob’s Ladder placed second in the 1931 ...
Jacobs Ladder. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. University of Miami Press, 1950 - Country life - 118 pages. Young couple barely makes a living in the swamps of Florida.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- University of Miami Press, 1950
- the University of Michigan
- Jacobs Ladder
Apr 15, 1994 · There’s nothing minimalist about the 65-page “Jacob’s Ladder” as it chronicles the hardships suffered by Florry and Mart, who pridefully refuse help from outsiders, gleaning a poor living ...
Author: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953. Note: University of Miami Press, 1950. Link: page images at HathiTrust. No stable link: This is an uncurated book entry from our extended bookshelves, readable online now but without a stable link here.
