Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS was an award-winning American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, published in 1938 and edited by Maxwell Perkins, won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel and in 1946 was made into a movie with the same name. She also wrote South Moon Under (1933), her first novel; Golden Apples (1935); Cross Creek Cookery, a collection of regional recipes (1942); and her last book, The Sojourner (1953); as well as many short stories, poems, and a children’s book.