Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American author 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 long before the concept of youngadult fiction, but is now commonly included in teenreading lists.

Marjorie Kinnan was born in 1896 in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Ida May and Arthur Frank Kinnan, an attorney for the US Patent Office. She grew up in the Brookland neighborhood and was interested in writing as early as age six, and submitted stories to the childrens sections of newspapers until she was 16. At age 15, she entered into a contest a story titled The Reincarnation of Miss Hetty, for which she won a prize.

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