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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953)〔(Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House and Farm Yard, Women's History Month 2006-A National Register of Historic Places Feature ); accessed December 8, 2014.〕 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〔http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Novel〕 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.
==Early life==
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.〔〔Bloom, Harold, ed."American Women Fiction Writers, 1900-1960", Volume 3. Chelsea House, Philadelphia (1998).〕 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.〔(Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography )〕
She attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she joined Kappa Alpha Theta〔 Kappa Alpha Theta website. Retrieved on December 30, 2007.〕 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, and married Charles in 1919.〔 The couple moved to Louisville, Kentucky, writing for the ''Louisville Courier-Journal'' and then Rochester, New York both writing for the ''Rochester Journal'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Biography )〕 and Marjorie writing a syndicated column called "Songs of the Housewife".〔
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.〔(Florida State Parks: Welcome to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park )〕〔Bellman, Samuel. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Twayne Publishers, New York: 1974.〕 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.〔(Treasures of South Florida Libraries. University of Florida )〕
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