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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
American novelist (1896–1953)
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| Born | Marjorie Kinnan (1896-08-08)August 8, 1896 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | December 14, 1953(1953-12-14) (aged 57) St. Augustine, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | University of Wisconsin, Madison (BA) |
| Period | 1928–1953 |
| Genre | Fiction, Florida history |
| Spouses | Charles Rawlings (m. 1919; div. 1933)Norton Baskin (m. 1941) |
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953)[1] 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[2] and was later made into a movie of the same name. The book was written before the concept of young adult fiction aros