Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan( 1896–1953),born in Washington, D.C., graduated from the University of Wisconsin (1918), became a journalist, and in 1928 “deliberately cut her civilized ties …and migrated to the firmly intrenched outpost of the vanishing frontier,” the hummock country of Florida that forms the setting of her fiction. Cross Creek (1942) is a humorous account of her adoption of Florida as a home and a source of literary material. She published her first novelette, Jacob's Ladder, and stories of the region's poor-white farmers, hunters, trappers, fishermen, and moonshiners in When the Whippoorwill (1940). She further depicted this region in her novels South Moon Under (1933), Golden Apples (1935), and The Yearling (1938, Pulitzer Prize), about a boy's love for his pet fawn, which his father is forced to kill when it ruins his meager crops. Her Selected Letters was published in...
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