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, but is
now commonly included in teen-reading lists.
Contents:
The Yearling
Cross Creek
The Sojourner
South Moon Under
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, but is
now commonly included in teen-reading lists.
Contents:
The Yearling
Cross Creek
The Sojourner
South Moon Under