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): Anastasia M. Ashman • Carl Fredrik Pechlin • Esther Williams • Leo Chiosso • Ross Ohlendorf • Ryan Koolwijk • Sarat Pujari • Webb Pierce

Born in the same month (August 1896): Albert Ball • Brian Edmund Baker • Catherine Doherty • Erich Hückel • Firaq Gorakhpuri • Félix-Antoine Savard • Gerty Cori • Gostha Pal • Ivan Mihailov • Jack Pickford • Jean Piaget • Kenji Miyazawa • Laurence McKinley Gould • Leslie Groves • Oliver W. Larkin • Paul Outerbridge • Ralph Horween • Raymond Massey • Theodor Luts • Tõnis Kint