orig. Marjorie Kinnan
born Aug. 8, 1896, Washington, D.C., U.S.
died Dec. 14, 1953, St. Augustine, Fla.
U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
Rawlings worked as a journalist before moving to backwoods Florida and devoting herself to fiction. Taking her material from the people and land around her, she wrote richly atmospheric works that resemble vivid factual reporting and are noted for their magical descriptions of landscape. Her best-known novel is The Yearling (1938, Pulitzer Prize), about a boy from a hardscrabble family and the fawn he adopts. Her later works include Cross Creek (1942) and The Sojourner (1953).