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
...Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1896-1953 by Janet K...Stories by Mary Austin and Marjorie Pryse Stories from the Country...Country of Lost Borders . Ed. Marjorie Pryse. New Brunswick, NJ...
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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
...John Crowe Ransom 1888-1974 John J. Hindle 391 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1896-1953 Owen Gilman 401 Elizabeth Madox Roberts 1881-1941 William...
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Editor to Author: The Letters of Maxwell E. Perkins
Book by John Hall Wheelock, Maxwell Evarts Perkins; Scribner, 1950
Subjects: Charles Scribner's Sons
...OCTOBER 27, 1933 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 83 NOVEMBER 15, 1933 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 85...FEBRUARY 1, 1934 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 87...
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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
...Ann Pierce 228 Tamora Pierce 231 Randy Powell 235 Philip Pullman 238 Marsha Qualey 243 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 246 Wilson Rawls 250 Lynne Reid Banks 253 John H Ritter 257 Willo Davis Roberts 260...
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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
...Raskin, Ellen. The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel). Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game. Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Robertson, Keith. Henry Reed, Inc. Robertson, Keith. Henry Reeds Baby-Sitting Service...
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journal articles on: Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan  - 34 results

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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...autobiographical Cross Creek, published in 1942, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings devotes a chapter of the work to...time in a rundown tenant house on Rawlings orange grove in Cross Creek, Florida...
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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
Race and the Rural in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlingss Cross Creek. by Carolyn...isolation. Into this world, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings came in 1928, purchasing...this kind of hierarchy, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, born in the Washington...
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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
...In: Nature and Gender in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlingss South Moon Under...Rieger By the time that Marjorie Kinnan Rawlingss first novel, South Moon...eds., Selected Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Gainesville: University...
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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
...and the "Eternal Bitch" in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlingss the Sojourner. by Veronica Makowsky MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGSs most difficult book is The...her day and in ours. (1) Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Selected Letters, ed. Gordon...
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magazine articles on: Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan  - 5 results

 
 
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Homecomings
Magazine article by Anne Matthews; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Autumn 2007
Subjects: Commonplace books--Excerpts, Family--Appreciation, Home--Appreciation
...joining of person to place, as of person to person, is a commitment to shared sorrow, even as to shared joy. --MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS Cross Creek, 1942 Every inch of that trail was dear to me, every delicate curve about the old pinon roots, every...
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Q&a
Magazine article; NEA Today, Vol. 26, March 2008
Subjects: Actors, Burnett, Carol, Fairy tales, Reading
...a 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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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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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...believe Mary Steenburgen as Rawlings (author of The Yearling) youll...Soundtrack includes bits of Rawlings nature writing, for better or...
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Building/Dwelling/Drifting
Magazine article by Charlie Hailey; The Antioch Review, Vol. 60, Fall 2002
Subjects: Boundaries (Geography)--Portrayals, Boundaries--Portrayals, Building--Social aspects, Construction--Social aspects, Fences, Fences (Structures), Human territoriality--Personal narratives
...real objection is that an elegant fence would bring to the Creek a wanton orderliness that is out of place. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek. The second night of our life confined by pickets I lay awake wondering what it really meant...


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newspaper articles on: Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan  - 3 results

 
 
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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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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-mile...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
...Un-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. ART...


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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, when she...
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Gainesville
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of 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 in...


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