Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) was an American author best known for her novel The Yearling, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939. She was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the South. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied journalism. After college, she moved to Florida, where she wrote her first novel, South Moon Under. Rawlings wrote several other novels, including Cross Creek, which was adapted into a movie in 1983. She also wrote short stories, essays, and nonfiction works about Florida and the South. Her works often focused on rural life and the struggles of the people who lived there. Rawlings was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was also the first woman to receive the Florida Arts Council Award. She died in 1953 in Cross Creek, Florida.
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