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1) Cross Creek
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
After ten years as a frustrated newspaper reporter and unsuccessful author of fiction, Marjorie Rawlings turns her back on financial security and takes up residence in the Florida Everglades. In this remote and untamed portion of central Florida, Rawlings is inspired to create a gallery of unforgettable characters and to produce critically-acclaimed best sellers.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A comprehensive and engaging biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the beloved classic The Yearling. Washington, DC, born and Wisconsin educated, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an unlikely author of a coming-of-age novel about a poor central Florida child and his pet fawn--much less one that has become synonymous with Florida literature writ large. Rawlings was a tough, ambitious, and independent woman who refused...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Ashley Lear's The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow examines the documents collected by Rawlings on Glasgow, along with her personal notes, to better understand the experiences that brought these two women writers together and the importance of literary friendships between women writers. This study sheds new light on the complexities of their professional success and personal struggles, both of which led them to find...
Author
Publisher
University Presses of Florida
Pub. Date
c1983
Description
The letters published here are all drawn from the Rawlings Collection at the University of Florida library in Gainesville, Florida. This collection, which contains more than a thousand letters was established by Mrs. Rawlings' own gift of manuscripts and personal papers in 1950 and was augmented by a systematic canvass of her correspondents in 1959-62 and by generous gifts from a number of individuals including Norton S. Baskin, Carl Van Vechten,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tailored Tours Publications
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings grew up loving to write and hoping to become an author. Later she moved to Florida, where she lived out in the country at Cross Creek in an area called the Big Scrub. She met the people who lived there, the so-called Crackers. Their simple way of life fascinated her, so she wrote stories about them. One of her books, called The Yearling, was about a boy and a pet deer. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her dream...
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