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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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American novelist (1896-1953)

United StatesWritersLived 1896 to 1953 · aged 57
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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.

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1986Florida Women's Hall of Fame
1941Honorary doctorate of the University of Florida
1939Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
1933O. Henry Award
Florida Artists Hall of Fame

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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.

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United States
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Writers
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deceased
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Lived 1896 to 1953 · aged 57
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