Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings date of birth:

August 8, 1896

How old was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings when died?

57

Where was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings born?

Washington, D.C., USA

When did Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings die?

December 14, 1953

What is Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's occupation?

writer

What genre is Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's work?

fiction, Florida history

Short Biography

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 name. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.