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): Aleksandra Szwed • Ben G. Davis • Chester Williams • Faye Wong • JC Chasez • Jack Baldwin (chemist) • Jacques Hétu • José Francisco Molina • Karim Walid • Kate Langbroek • Louis van Gaal • Monika Tsõganova • Sylvia Sidney • Terry Nation • Webb Pierce • Yvie Burnett

Born in the same month (August 1896): Albert Ball • Firaq Gorakhpuri • Félix-Antoine Savard • Gostha Pal • Jean Piaget • Kenji Miyazawa • Oliver W. Larkin • Ralph Horween