Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
American novelist (1896–1953)
Biography
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was born in Washington, D.C. in 1896 and worked as a novelist, children's writer, and screenwriter. She settled in rural Florida and wrote novels set in rural environments. Her novel The Yearling, which concerns a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 and was adapted into a film. She died in 1953.
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is recorded as a novelist, a children's writer, a university teacher, a writer and a screenwriter, born in District of Columbia (1896–1953).
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