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): Abey Kuruvilla • Aleksandra Szwed • Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham • Chris Eubank • David Florence • Diddú • Donald P. Bellisario • Frank Howard (baseball) • Jack Cassel • Joely Collins • John Ker • Kool Moe Dee • Marcelo Balboa • Michael Johnson (singer) • Nick Holtam • Nicolas Vogondy • Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine • Shayna Baszler • Sudhakar Rao • Vladimír Darida • Willie Hall (drummer)

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 • Kenji Miyazawa • Laurence McKinley Gould • Leslie Groves • Oliver W. Larkin • Paul Outerbridge • Ralph Horween • Raymond Massey • Theodor Luts • Tõnis Kint