Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote The Yearling, one of the most beloved American novels of the twentieth century, set in the Florida scrublands she documented with passionate fidelity. Her memoir Cross Creek is a classic of place writing.
Works
- The YearlingComing-of-age novel of a Florida boy and his wild deer, exploring loss and maturation
- South Moon UnderNovel following a moonshiner and his wife in rural Florida's scrubland
- Golden ApplesNovel of siblings returning home to their Florida mother, confronting family secrets
- Cross CreekMemoir of the author's life on her Cross Creek homestead in Florida
- When the Whippoorwill
- The SojournerNovel of an aging man returning to his Tennessee home seeking redemption and peace