About Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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 arose but is now commonly included in teen reading lists. At age 15, she entered into a contest a story titled "The Reincarnation of Miss Hetty", for which she won a prize. Her first novel, South Moon Under, was published in 1933.
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