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On August 8, 1896, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the writer of The Yearling, was born in Washington, D.C. From the article:
"Marjorie Kinnan was born in 1896 in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Ida May (née Traphagen) and Arthur Frank Kinnan, an attorney for the US Patent Office.[1][3] She grew up in the Brookland neighborhood and was interested in writing as early as age six, and submitted stories to the children's sections of newspapers until she was 16. At age 15, she entered into a contest a story titled "The Reincarnation of Miss Hetty", for which she won a prize.[4]
She attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she joined Kappa Alpha Theta[5] sorority and received a degree in English in 1918. She was selected as a member of the local senior women's honor society on campus, which in 1920 became a chapter of the national senior women's society, Mortar Board. She met Charles Rawlings while working for the school literary magazine. Kinnan briefly worked for the YWCA editorial board in New York City, and married him in 1919.[1] The couple moved to Louisville, Kentucky, writing for the Louisville Courier-Journal and then Rochester, New York both writing for the Rochester Journal,[6] and Marjorie writing a syndicated column called "Songs of the Housewife".[3]
In 1928, with a small inheritance from her mother, the Rawlings purchased a 72-acre (290,000 m²) orange grove near Hawthorne, Florida, in a hamlet named Cross Creek for its location between Orange Lake and Lochloosa Lake. She brought the place to international fame through her writing. She was fascinated with the remote wilderness and the lives of Cross Creek residents, her "Florida cracker" neighbors, and felt a profound and transforming connection to the region and the land.[7][8] Wary at first, the local residents soon warmed to her and opened up their lives and experiences to her. Marjorie filled several notebooks with descriptions of the animals, plants, Southern dialect, and recipes and used these descriptions in her writings."
"Marjorie Kinnan was born in 1896 in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Ida May (née Traphagen) and Arthur Frank Kinnan, an attorney for the US Patent Office.[1][3] She grew up in the Brookland neighborhood and was interested in writing as early as age six, and submitted stories to the children's sections of newspapers until she was 16. At age 15, she entered into a contest a story titled "The Reincarnation of Miss Hetty", for which she won a prize.[4]
She attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she joined Kappa Alpha Theta[5] sorority and received a degree in English in 1918. She was selected as a member of the local senior women's honor society on campus, which in 1920 became a chapter of the national senior women's society, Mortar Board. She met Charles Rawlings while working for the school literary magazine. Kinnan briefly worked for the YWCA editorial board in New York City, and married him in 1919.[1] The couple moved to Louisville, Kentucky, writing for the Louisville Courier-Journal and then Rochester, New York both writing for the Rochester Journal,[6] and Marjorie writing a syndicated column called "Songs of the Housewife".[3]
In 1928, with a small inheritance from her mother, the Rawlings purchased a 72-acre (290,000 m²) orange grove near Hawthorne, Florida, in a hamlet named Cross Creek for its location between Orange Lake and Lochloosa Lake. She brought the place to international fame through her writing. She was fascinated with the remote wilderness and the lives of Cross Creek residents, her "Florida cracker" neighbors, and felt a profound and transforming connection to the region and the land.[7][8] Wary at first, the local residents soon warmed to her and opened up their lives and experiences to her. Marjorie filled several notebooks with descriptions of the animals, plants, Southern dialect, and recipes and used these descriptions in her writings."
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This documentary profiles the author, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: best known for, "The Yearling," about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn. It won a Pulitzer Pr...
Thank you my friend SGT (Join to see) for making us aware that August 8 is the anniversary of the birth of American author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings who was awarded Pulitzer Prize in 1939 for her novel "The Yearling.
Sadly she died at age 57.
Rest in peace Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,
Background from nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0808.html
"Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, whose story of a Florida backwoods boy won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939, died of a cerebral hemorrhage last night in Flagler Hospital. She was taken ill yesterday morning.
The death of the 57-year-old novelist cut short her work on a new project--the life of Ellen Glasgow, the Virginia novelist. Mrs. Rawlings had planned to devote five years of research and writing to it.
Surviving is her second husband, Martin Baskin, to whom, she was marred in 1941.
The funeral service will be held here at 11 A.M. tomorrow at the Craig Funeral Home. Mrs. Rawlings will be buried near her Cross Creek farm near Gainesville.
Failure for Ten Years
For more than ten years, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings tried hard to become a fiction writer--with complete failure. She made up her mind to give up.
"Then I thought, well, just one more," she told a New York Times reporter years later. That short story "sold like a shot, and I have had no trouble since," Mrs. Rawlings said.
"No trouble" was a modest understatement for a success that included a Pulitzer Prize novel and two others in the final consideration for the award, two honorary college degrees and a fortune in book club royalties and movie rights.
"The Yearling," Mrs. Rawlings' greatest triumph, was hailed in 1938 as a "classic" of American popular fiction. While considering her writing as lacking the depth and "tough-mindedness" of great literature, critics nevertheless praised her skill in reproducing the color, characters, speech, local customs and way of life of the backwoods of Florida.
Marjorie Kinnan was born on Aug. 8, 1896, in Washington, where her father, Arthur Frank Kinnan, was a patent attorney for the Government. The girl acquired her knowledge of farm life early by spending her holidays on the family farm in Maryland.
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
She was graduated from Wisconsin University in 1918 with a Phi Beta Kappa key and was one of the best English students of Prof. William Ellery Leonard, the poet. She had been writing for school publications since the age of 14.
After college, she worked during World War I as a publicity agent for the Young Women's Christian Association headquarters in Washington. In 1919, she was married to Charles Rawlings, also a writer. They were divorced fourteen years later. For ten years, Mrs. Rawlings was a reporter for The Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal and The Rochester (N.Y.) Journal, and wrote syndicated verse for United Features. All during these journalistic years, she also was toiling at short stories, but sold not a one.
In 1928, Mrs. Rawlings retired on a seventy-two acre orange farm she had bought in the remote swamps of north-central Florida, near the hamlet of Hawthorn, which she had discovered on a visit to her in-laws. There she persevered until "Jacob's Ladder" won a novelette contest in Scribner's magazine in 1931.
After that first success, another short story, "Gal Young Un," won an O. Henry Memorial Prize in 1933, and she sent her first novel, "South Moon Under" to Scribner's. All these works were "regional" to her Florida home.
'South Moon Under' in 1933
The late Max Perkins, Scribner's great editor and talent scout, directed the rewriting of "South Moon Under" and it became a Book of the Month Club selection in 1933. "Golden Apples" almost won the Pulitzer Prize in 1935. "The Yearling" did win it in 1939.
This sentimental story, telling how a 12-year-old boy grows up to the harsh facts of life by accepting the necessity for his pet deer to be killed, has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in many editions, and was made into a popular Technicolor film.
Mrs. Rawlings wrote a non-fiction book about her farm, "Cross Creek," another Book of the Month choice, in 1942, and a Florida cookbook the same year. She left the swamps briefly for upper New York State, producing "The Sojourner," a novel, last year.
But it was the Florida of hammock trees and palmetto and alligator hunters that made Mrs. Rawlings famous. "When one hears the term Florida Cracker, one thinks at once of her work," The Times commented. She did not produce a great deal in twenty-two years, considering the demand for her every line.
"Writing is agony for me," she once told an interviewer. "I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three."
Marjorie (Documentary)
This documentary profiles the author, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: best known for, "The Yearling," about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn. It won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3_QKkiUP1E
FYI LTC Stephen C. Maj William W. "Bill" Price LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. LTC (Join to see) CPT Gabe Snell Capt Tom Brown Capt Seid Waddell SSgt Robert Marx SSgt (Join to see) SCPO Morris RamseySP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT Robert George SGT John " Mac " McConnell SPC (Join to see) SP5 Robert Ruck SCPO Morris Ramsey CPL Eric Escasio Cpl Joshua Caldwell
Sadly she died at age 57.
Rest in peace Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,
Background from nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0808.html
"Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, whose story of a Florida backwoods boy won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939, died of a cerebral hemorrhage last night in Flagler Hospital. She was taken ill yesterday morning.
The death of the 57-year-old novelist cut short her work on a new project--the life of Ellen Glasgow, the Virginia novelist. Mrs. Rawlings had planned to devote five years of research and writing to it.
Surviving is her second husband, Martin Baskin, to whom, she was marred in 1941.
The funeral service will be held here at 11 A.M. tomorrow at the Craig Funeral Home. Mrs. Rawlings will be buried near her Cross Creek farm near Gainesville.
Failure for Ten Years
For more than ten years, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings tried hard to become a fiction writer--with complete failure. She made up her mind to give up.
"Then I thought, well, just one more," she told a New York Times reporter years later. That short story "sold like a shot, and I have had no trouble since," Mrs. Rawlings said.
"No trouble" was a modest understatement for a success that included a Pulitzer Prize novel and two others in the final consideration for the award, two honorary college degrees and a fortune in book club royalties and movie rights.
"The Yearling," Mrs. Rawlings' greatest triumph, was hailed in 1938 as a "classic" of American popular fiction. While considering her writing as lacking the depth and "tough-mindedness" of great literature, critics nevertheless praised her skill in reproducing the color, characters, speech, local customs and way of life of the backwoods of Florida.
Marjorie Kinnan was born on Aug. 8, 1896, in Washington, where her father, Arthur Frank Kinnan, was a patent attorney for the Government. The girl acquired her knowledge of farm life early by spending her holidays on the family farm in Maryland.
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
She was graduated from Wisconsin University in 1918 with a Phi Beta Kappa key and was one of the best English students of Prof. William Ellery Leonard, the poet. She had been writing for school publications since the age of 14.
After college, she worked during World War I as a publicity agent for the Young Women's Christian Association headquarters in Washington. In 1919, she was married to Charles Rawlings, also a writer. They were divorced fourteen years later. For ten years, Mrs. Rawlings was a reporter for The Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal and The Rochester (N.Y.) Journal, and wrote syndicated verse for United Features. All during these journalistic years, she also was toiling at short stories, but sold not a one.
In 1928, Mrs. Rawlings retired on a seventy-two acre orange farm she had bought in the remote swamps of north-central Florida, near the hamlet of Hawthorn, which she had discovered on a visit to her in-laws. There she persevered until "Jacob's Ladder" won a novelette contest in Scribner's magazine in 1931.
After that first success, another short story, "Gal Young Un," won an O. Henry Memorial Prize in 1933, and she sent her first novel, "South Moon Under" to Scribner's. All these works were "regional" to her Florida home.
'South Moon Under' in 1933
The late Max Perkins, Scribner's great editor and talent scout, directed the rewriting of "South Moon Under" and it became a Book of the Month Club selection in 1933. "Golden Apples" almost won the Pulitzer Prize in 1935. "The Yearling" did win it in 1939.
This sentimental story, telling how a 12-year-old boy grows up to the harsh facts of life by accepting the necessity for his pet deer to be killed, has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in many editions, and was made into a popular Technicolor film.
Mrs. Rawlings wrote a non-fiction book about her farm, "Cross Creek," another Book of the Month choice, in 1942, and a Florida cookbook the same year. She left the swamps briefly for upper New York State, producing "The Sojourner," a novel, last year.
But it was the Florida of hammock trees and palmetto and alligator hunters that made Mrs. Rawlings famous. "When one hears the term Florida Cracker, one thinks at once of her work," The Times commented. She did not produce a great deal in twenty-two years, considering the demand for her every line.
"Writing is agony for me," she once told an interviewer. "I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three."
Marjorie (Documentary)
This documentary profiles the author, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: best known for, "The Yearling," about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn. It won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3_QKkiUP1E
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Was, and have been, inspired by her from the first time I read The Yearling.
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Have you gone to the park near Micanopy? It is a nice day trip if you're near Gainesville.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
No, never even heard of it. Grandaughter went to UF, so we were in the area a lot but always had things to do. Will have to check it out when it cools down a bit.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - It is actually called Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Park.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Thanks, had Googled it after your post. Not sure how I didn't know about it.
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