"Before she settled in the scrub country, Marjorie Rawlings had been a newspaperwoman in Louisville Kentucky, and Rochester New York. Tiring of a life that seemed "scrappy and always in a hurry," she turned her hand unsuccessfully to short-story writing. She had almost given up when, at 32, she used a small legacy to buy her 72-acre orange grove at Cross Creek. The people and the country inspired her to continue writing. Increasingly, her fiction reflected her deepening knowledge of her chosen patch of earth. Two prizewinning stories were followed by two highly praised novels; her third novel, The Yearling, won its author a Pulitzer Prize and a delighted following the world over." - The Editors of Time
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Author details
- Born:
- Aug. 8, 1896
- Died:
- Dec. 14, 1953
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Books by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marc Connelly, Joseph Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Parker, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, A. J. Liebling, E. E. Cummings, Glen Rounds, Clifton Fadiman, Oliver Herford, Booth Tarkington, Bret Harte, Cornelia Otis Skinner, George Ade, N. P. Willis, Ambrose Bierce, Kenneth Fearing, James M. Cain, Edgar Allan Poe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Richard Lockridge, Carolyn Wells, E.B. White, Ludwig Bemelmans, James Russell Lowell, Anita Loos, Katharine S. White, Leonard Q. Ross, John Mosher, Edward Streeter, Arthur Kober, Heywood Broun, Frank Moore Colby, McKelway, St. Clair, Frederic S. Cozzens, Charles Heber Clark, Francis Steegmuller, James T. Fields, Moffat, Donald W., Phyllis McGinley, Orpheus C. Kerr, V. Petroleum Nasby, Finley Peter Dunne, Frank Sullivan, Robert C. Benchley, Franklin P. Adams, Gibbs, Wolcott, Corey Ford, Nunnally Johnson, Lucretia P. Hale, Clifford Orr, Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne), Russell Maloney, Geoffrey Hellman, M, George W. Harris, Alfred Henry Lewis, Roark Bradford, Frances Warfield, Billings, Josh, Will Cuppy, Alexander Woolcott, Persis Greely Anderson, George Jean Nathan, Alva Johnston, Sanderson Vanderbilt, E. J. Kahn Jr., John McNulty, Angela Cypher, H. C. Bunner, Irwin Edman, Samuel Hoffenstein, Guiterman, Arthur, Taylor, Bert Leston, Benjamin Franklin, Clarence Hollister Knapp, Kenneth Allan Robinson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lee Strout White, Stephen Vincent Benét, Ruth Ann McKinney, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, William Saroyan, Don Marquis, Louis Untermeyer, Day, Clarence, Frank R. Stockton, Donald Ogden Stewart, Eugene Field, Joel Chandler Harris, James Thurber, Sally Benson, H. L. Mencken, S. J. Perelman, Ring Lardner: A Subtreasury of American humor (1962, Capricorn Books)
A Subtreasury of American humor
by Marc Connelly, Joseph Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and 95 others