Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings





Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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born
in Washington, DC, The United States
August 08, 1896

died
December 14, 1953

gender
female

genre


About this author

Awarded Pulitzer Prize in 1939 for The Yearling.


Average rating: 3.93 · 11,612 ratings · 695 reviews · 23 distinct works · Similar authors
The Yearling
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 10,380 ratings — published 1930 — 55 editions
Cross Creek
by
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 647 ratings — published 1942 — 11 editions
The Secret River
by
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1955 — 4 editions
The Sojourner
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1951 — 8 editions
Cross Creek Cookery
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1942 — 3 editions
South Moon Under
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions
Golden Apples
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings2 editions
When the Whippoorwill
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1940 — 3 editions
Il cucciolo
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1959 — 2 editions
Jacob's Ladder
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1950
More books by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings…
“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.”
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men”
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek

“Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.”
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek

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