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The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Author Biography

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

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Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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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...
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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 is...
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Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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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...
 


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Yearling : Economics Topics
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A UK local government stock maturing in a year. See also: government...
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The Yearling Information
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The Yearling is a 1938 novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939. Rawlings's editor was Maxwell Perkins, who also worked with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and other literary luminaries. She had...


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Publishers Weekly
Yearling turns 25. (Yearling Books)
10/11/1991: 3,283 words, approx. 11 pages
By today's standards, it's a decidedly bland-looking catalogue. The unassuming design on its two-color cover resembles the surface of a board game, with small squares containing art from a handful of the books described within. The "directions" to the board game are presented...
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The Washington Post
Sanity, Stability Return to Yearling Sales
07/22/1988: 767 words, approx. 3 pages
During the boom years, the Keeneland Selected Yearling Sales commanded attention on the front pages of newspapers and the nightly network newscasts. Thoroughbred racehorses were one of the world's hottest commodities, and this was the world's most important sale, where eager buyers would spend...
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Cows escape from truck in La. wreck
11/16/2007: 296 words, approx. 1 pages
Sheriff's deputies on horseback rounded up scores of heifers after a cattle truck overturned on an interstate overpass, closing the highway for hours and killing 23 of the yearlings.Most of the heifers were killed in the truck or on the interstate, but some jumped off...
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Idaho center touts bear rehabilitation
7/17/2007: 719 words, approx. 2 pages
Jabbed with tranquilizers, her ear pierced with a green ID tag, Twister traded her steel transport box for freedom after a bumpy 90-mile ride into central Idaho's mountains. The yearling black bear orphan stepped from an open cage onto a dusty truck bed, dropped softly...
 


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