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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,
photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1953
Personal information
Birth dateAugust 8, 1896
Place of birthWashington, D.C., USA
Date of deathDecember 14, 1953(age 57)
Death placeSt. Augustine, Florida, USA
(cerebral hemorrhage)
NationalityAmerican
Occupationwriter
Period1928 - 1953
Notable worksThe Yearling, 1939

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 � December 14, 1953) was an American author 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, also known as The Yearling. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.


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