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): Axel Merckx • Casey Cott • Craig Breslow • Earle Page • James J. Blanchard • John Holmes (actor) • Ken Dryden • Mohamed Morsi • Richard Anderson

Born in the same month (August 1896): Albert Ball • Brian Edmund Baker • Catherine Doherty • Firaq Gorakhpuri • Félix-Antoine Savard • Gerty Cori • Ivan Mihailov • Jean Piaget • Leslie Groves • Ralph Horween • Raymond Massey • Theodor Luts