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 env...

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 is...

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 collect...

Under the Baseball Moon by John H. Ritter Ritter, John H. 2006. Under the Baseball Moon. Philomel. 2006. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-399-23623-6 $16.99. Reviewed by Vicki Sherbert Andy Ramos rides a skateboard. Andy Ramos plays a trumpet. At the same time. ...

Under the Same Moon dir. Patricia Riggen Issue films, always teetering on the brink between documentaries and Hallmark television specials, can be hard to love. Plenty of viewers will enjoy Under the Same Moon because they sympathize with the politics of the...