Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

2 summariesChildren's, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American writer 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 of the same name. The book was written before the concept of young adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.

Books by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
4.0 (26k) average on GoodreadsChildren's
In the Florida scrubland, a boy's bond with a rescued fawn becomes a heartbreaking lesson about survival and sacrifice.
Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
4.1 (2k) average on GoodreadsBiography
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, in the wild beauty of a Florida orange grove, navigates runaway pigs and colorful neighbors, finding humor, hardship, and a deep bond with the land that shapes her.