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...

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...

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...

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 consider herself a children's author. Yet in...

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...