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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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The delightful Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings provides her readers with a deep-dish slice of life in a southern community that, although imperfect, is a network of wonderful people. At the same time, Rawlings' insights into nature, its seasons, rhythms and anomalies, are acute, sensitive and heart-warming. This is a complex woman who hunts, fishes and explores with the strongest of men, and who decorates her home, cooks, entertains, writes, and enjoys the...

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Biographies (5)

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

2,983 words, approx. 10 pages

Biography EssayMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings is known primarily for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Yearling (1938). Most of her fiction and nonfiction deals with poor, backcountry Floridians (called... Read more

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

2,565 words, approx. 9 pages

If Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's name is remembered today it is because of her beloved 1938 children's novel, The Yearling. This classic tale about a boy and his pet deer won the Pulitzer Prize for ficti... Read more

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1,765 words, approx. 6 pages

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is known primarily for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Yearling (1938). Most of her fiction and nonfiction deals with poor, backcountry Floridians (called "crackers") and... Read more

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

2,154 words, approx. 8 pages

The audience of good books for children, as everyone knows, has no age limits. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling (1938), did not set out to write a children's classic, nor did she ever ... Read more

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

2,239 words, approx. 8 pages

Although Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is best known as the author of The Yearling (1938) and thus--inaccurately--as a writer of children's books, her other novels deserve consideration as serious fictio... Read more

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