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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Born

in Washington, District of Columbia, The United States

August 08, 1896

Died

December 14, 1953

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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People know American writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for her novel The Yearling (1938).

This author lived in rural Florida 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 title, The Yearling. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists. ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 36,230 ratings · 2,419 reviews · 83 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Patricia Reilly Giff (Foreword) 4.04 avg rating — 30,672 ratings — published 1938 — 324 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Edward Shenton (Illustrator) 4.06 avg rating — 2,708 ratings — published 1942 — 354 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sojourner 4.47 avg rating — 737 ratings — published 1951 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret River by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator) 4.03 avg rating — 812 ratings — published 1955 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	South Moon Under 4.26 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 1933	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cross Creek Cookery by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Robert Camp (Illustrator) 4.28 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 1942 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When the Whippoorwill 4.33 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1931 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Mother in Mannville 4.14 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1936 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Rodger L. Tarr (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jacob's Ladder really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1950	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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“Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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“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

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September 2022 New School Classic Group Read

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay, 1967, 189 pages

58 votes, 30.1%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 226 pages

40 votes, 20.7%

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1938, 513 pages

30 votes, 15.5%

I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki, 1905, 480 pages

30 votes, 15.5%

Insatiability by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1930, 480 pages

13 votes, 6.7%

Permutation City by Greg Egan, 1994, 352 pages

12 votes, 6.2%

Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel, 1926, 247 pages

10 votes, 5.2%

193 total votes

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