Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings





Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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born
December 13, 1901 in Washington, DC, The United States

died
December 14, 1953

gender
female

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About this author

Awarded Pulitzer Prize in 1939 for The Yearling.


Average rating: 3.85 · 6,775 ratings · 604 reviews · 20 distinct works
The Yearling
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 5,821 ratings — published 1930 — 45 editions
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Cross Creek
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 446 ratings — published 1942 — 11 editions
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The Secret River
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 1955 — 4 editions
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The Sojourner
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1951 — 8 editions
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Cross Creek Cookery
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1942 — 3 editions
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South Moon Under
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions
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Short Stories by Marjorie K...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
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Golden Apples
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Blood of My Blood
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2002
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When the Whippoorwill
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1940 — 3 editions
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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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