Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1953 Born (1896-08-08)August 8, 1896 Washington, D.C., United States Died December 14, 1953(1953-12-14) (aged 57) St. Augustine, Florida, US Occupation writer Nationality American Period 1928 - 1953 Genre fiction, Florida history Notable works The Yearling, 1939 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) 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 title, The Yearling. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.