Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Rawlings in 1953
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 arose, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.