Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American writer 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 before the concept of young adult fiction arose, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.

8 August 1896

Born on the same birth day (8 August): Andy Priaulx • Anton Fig • Aziz Sattar • Ferenc Kölcsey • Hermann Anton Gelinek • Jackie Cruz • Johnny Balentina • Johnny Temple • José Francisco Molina • Ken Baumann • Rinku Singh (baseball) • Ronnie Biggs • Shayna Baszler • Thomas Anstey Guthrie

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