Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, (August 8,1896- December 14, 1953) is an American-born author who is best known for her novel, The Yearling. The book, published in 1939, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was eventually made into a major-motion film. Many of Rawling's works are based on her years of living in rural and remote Florida.

Rawlings was born in Washington, DC in 1896 and received an English degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1918. She married a fellow writer, Charles Rawlings, and the couple moved to Rochester, NY and both wrote for local newspapers. They later bought an orange grove in Hawthorne, Florida, where Rawlings became enthralled with the wilderness and people living in the area. Her writing flourished around this time.

In 1933, her first novel, South Moon Under, was published. This was also the year she and her husband divorced. Her next published, and less popular novel, Golden Apples, came out in 1935. Her best known novel, The Yearling. was published in 1939. Many of Rawlings short stories were published in When the Whippoorwill (1940) and her last book, The Sojourner, was published in 1953.

Over the years, Rawlings became friends with other famous authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Frost, Thomas Wolfe and Ernest Hemingway. She died on December 14, 1953 in St. Augustine of a cerebral hemorrhage.

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	November 27, 2007
Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time. So ends the book, Cross Creek, written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.