Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic (born 1896)

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

American novelist (1896–1953)

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American writer 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 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the…