Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan (1896–1953), U.S. novelist. With a dramatic change in lifestyle from urban journalist to Florida back-country resident, she began to write fiction about life in her new home of Cross Creek. Her novel The Yearling (1939) won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her stories were collected in When the Whippoorwill (l940). Cross Creek (1942), a nonfiction book of essays, humorously describes her life on her Florida farm.