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Name: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Birth Date: 8 August 1896
Death Date: 14 December 1953

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Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
2,993 words, approx. 10 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 with man's need to be in harmony with his natural...
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Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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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 fiction and made her a national celebrity. The Yearling...
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Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
2,268 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 fiction. So do her short stories, eleven of which were...
 


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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Information
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953)[1] was an American author 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...


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Monarch Notes
Works of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Biography
01/01/1963: 1,121 words, approx. 4 pages
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Biography: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was born in Washington, D.C., in 1896 and died in Florida in 1953. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1918 she became a newspaper reporter. She worked for the Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal and for the...
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Southern Quarterly
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Reckoning of Ideology
10/01/2005: 5,773 words, approx. 19 pages
In the autobiographical Cross Creek, published in 1942, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings devotes a chapter of the work to her encounter with the proud and graceful young white woman who would later become the inspiration for Florry in "Jacob's Ladder" (68). This chapter, "Antses in...
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Bette Davis featured on new 2008 stamps
12/27/2007: 737 words, approx. 3 pages
A face that will tease you, and please you and perhaps unease you is coming to the post office next year, it's those Bette Davis eyes.On the 100th anniversary of her birth the great actress will be honored on a commemorative stamp, the 14th in...
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Bette Davis stars in 2008 postage stamps
12/27/2007: 737 words, approx. 3 pages
A face that will tease you, and please you and perhaps unease you is coming to the post office next year, it's those Bette Davis eyes.On the 100th anniversary of her birth the great actress will be honored on a commemorative stamp, the 14th in...
 


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