RAWLINGS, MARJORIE KINNAN

1896–1953, American author, b. Washington, D.C., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1918. She was a journalist until 1928, when she moved to the Florida backwoods, where most of her novels are set. Cross Creek (1942) is a humorous autobiographical account of her life there. The Yearling (1938; Pulitzer Prize), is the story of a boy and his pet deer. Her other novels include South Moon Under (1933), Golden Apples (1935), and The Sojourner (1953).

See her correspondence with Maxwell Perkins (2000).

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books on: Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan  - 104 results

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American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
Book by Laurie Champion, Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: American Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--20th Century--Dictionaries, American Literature--Women Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--Women Authors--Dictionaries, Authors, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Fiction, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century--Dictionaries, Women Authors, American--Biography--Dictionaries
...Scribners, 1956. Studies of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Acton Patricia Nassif...The Cross Creek Trial of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings." Rawlings Journal 1 1988...Loves Labors Lost: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on Marriage." Marjorie...
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Women Remembered: A Guide to Landmarks of Women's History in the United States
Book by Marion Tinling; Greenwood Press, 1986
Subjects: Historic Sites--United States--Guidebooks, Women--United States--Monuments--Guidebooks
...station. 1 CROSS CREEK Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953, Writer; NAWM Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House Museum; County 325...HABS, NHL It was after Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and her husband, Charles...
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Quizzes for 220 Great Children's Books: The Quest Motivational Reading Program
Book by Polly Jeanne Wickstrom; Teacher Ideas Press, 1996
Subjects: Children's Stories, English--Examinations, Questions, Etc, Children--Books And Reading, Literature--Study And Teaching (Elementary), Reading Comprehension--Examinations, Questions, Etc
...Slowly. Meigs, Cornelia. Invincible Louisa. Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Wyss, Johann. The Swiss Family...Category: E Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils. Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling.
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100 More Popular Young Adult Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies
Book by Bernard A. Drew; Libraries Unlimited, 2002
Subjects: Authors, American--Biography--Dictionaries, Authors, English--Biography--Dictionaries, Young Adult Literature, American--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Young Adult Literature, English--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries
...Times, 142 Poems: Maya Angelou, 21 1 Poems by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Songs of a Housewife, 248 Point Spread, 105...314 4 Raven of the Waves, 59, 60 Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 246-249 Rawls, Wilson, 250-252 Rays, Romance...
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Fifty Southern Writers after 1900: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook
Book by Joseph M. Flora, Robert Bain; Greenwood Press, 1987
Subjects: American Literature--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--20th Century--Dictionaries, American Literature--Southern States--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--Southern States--Dictionaries, Authors, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Authors, American--Southern States--Biography--Dictionaries, Southern States--Biography--Dictionaries, Southern States--In Literature
...Rowan, 212 Ratner, Maro L., 452 Ravenel, Shannon, 492 Ravenna, Michael Eudora Welty , 518 Rawlings, Charles, 402 , 404 Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 401 -10, 79 , 210 ; bibliography, 410 ; biography, 401 -5; criticism of, 409 ; major...
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Reckoning of Ideology
Journal article by Alison Graham-Bertolini; Southern Quarterly, Vol. 43, 2005
Subjects: Books, Feminism, Ideology, Literary criticism, Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, Writers
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Reckoning of Ideology by Alison Graham-Bertolini In the autobiographical Cross Creek, published in 1942, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings devotes a chapter of the work to her encounter with the proud...
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Race and the Rural in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Cross Creek
Journal article by Carolyn M. Jones; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 57, 2004
Subjects: Authors--Biography, Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan--Biography, Writers--Biography
...isolation. Into this world, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings came in 1928, purchasing...this kind of hierarchy, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, born in the Washington...her own memoir, Idella: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Perfect Maid. Rawlings...
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For the Record: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Meets F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Unpublished Accounts
Journal article by Rodger L. Tarr; Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 22, 1998
Subjects: Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
FOR THE RECORD Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Meets F. Scott Fitzgerald...Illinois State University Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, renowned for her novel...The Literary Career of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (University of Florida...
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Don't Fence Me In: Nature and Gender in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's South Moon Under
Journal article by Christopher Rieger; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 57, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, South Moon Under (Book)--Book reviews
...Selected Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Gainesville: University...The Literary Career of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Gainesville: University...14 (1992), 208. (8) Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, South Moon Under (New...
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The Changing American Hero and the "Eternal Bitch" in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's the Sojourner
Journal article by Veronica Makowsky; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 57, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Sojourner (Book)--Book reviews
...day and in ours. (1) Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Selected Letters, ed...1983), p. 385. (2) Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Sojourner (New York...Elizabeth Silverthorne, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Sojourner at Cross Creek...
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magazine articles on: Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan  - 9 results

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Earth in the Balcony
Magazine article by Bergma B J.; Sierra, Vol. 84, November 1999
Subjects: Motion picture industry--Environmental policy, Motion pictures--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...of struggling New York writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings move to the Florida Everglades...quite believe Mary Steenburgen as Rawlings (author of The Yearling) youll...Soundtrack includes bits of Rawlings nature writing, for better or...
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Hope Springs Eternal: Celebrated Novelist Andrew Holleran Takes a Journey to His Favorite Place in Florida, the Ichetucknee River
Magazine article by Andrew Holleran; The Advocate, December 2009
Subjects: Novelists
...Florida Fantasia Gainesville shows theres more to see in the Sunshine State than Disney World and South Beach Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House Venture back in time to 1930s farm life with a visit to the spot the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of...
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Salt of the Earth
Magazine article by Robert H. Mohlenbrock; Natural History, Vol. 115, December 2006
Subjects: Biological diversity, Creeks & streams, Forests, Habitats, Native North Americans, Parks & recreation areas, Shells
...isolated forest, not an actual island: here a swath of longleaf pine is surrounded by a sea of sand pine scrub. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who stayed at Pats Island in October 1933 with two local residents, Calvin and Mary Long, based her Pulitzer...
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Preserving Natural Florida
Magazine article by Doug Alderson; American Forests, Vol. 108, Winter 2003
Subjects: Conservation, Environmental protection, Jacksonville Florida, Wilderness areas
...other undeveloped areas for preservation. Perhaps he or she will remember the words of noted Florida author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: "I do not know how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to." I think about one...
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Q&a
Magazine article; NEA Today, Vol. 26, March 2008
Subjects: Actors, Burnett, Carol, Fairy tales, Reading
...child, was there a book that you simply couldnt put down (or hear too many times)? I loved The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, also every Arabian Nights fairy taie and Grimms Fairy Tales. What can you tell us about your experiences as...
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newspaper articles on: Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan  - 3 results

 
 
1.
Florida Legend an Inspiration to Her Niece
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 20, 2000
Subjects: Florida
...Pulitzer Prize winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Farrell adds. Their 250...in the 30s, was chronicled in Rawlings book, "Cross Creek." "Dessie has been credited with teaching Rawlings about surviving and living off...
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1930-1939
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 24, 1999
...American Activities Committee is formed to root out communists, fascists, Nazis and anarchists. THE WRITE STUFF Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings publishes "The Yearling." Thornton Wilder publishes "Our Town," which wins the Pulitzer Prize for drama...
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Editing Ernest; How a Publisher Got (and Kept) Hemingway
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 8, 2007
Subjects: Hemingway, Ernest
...Charles Scribners Sons. Perkins is re nowned as the editor who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and James Jones during his career at Scribners, and he brought their works to the attention of the reading public...


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encyclopedia articles on: Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan  - 2 results

 
 
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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RAWLINGS, MARJORIE KINNAN 1896 1953, American author, b. Washington, D.C., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1918. She was a journalist until 1928...
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Gainesville
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the university and the museums there, are Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings home in nearby Cross Creek, and many natural sinkholes, such as Devils Millhopper (said to be the largest...


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