Rawlings's Life
• Biography
• The Land
• Map
• Guided Tour
• Oranges
• Water
• Florida Panther
• The Trial
Cross Creek
• The Narrator
• Organization
• Truth vs. Reality
• Food
• Economics
• Af-Am Characters
• Transcendentalism
• Nouveau Pastoral
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawling's Life
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INTRO (Space filler): Born in Washington D.C., Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings graduated from the University of Wisconsin (1918) and became a journalist. In 1928 she left New York to live in Cross Creek, Florida. She divorced her first husband, Charles Rawlings, in 1933, and married Norton Baskin, a St. Augustine business man, in 1941. Her novel, The Yearling, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939. For a bibliography of her works see Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: a Descriptive Bibliography by Rodger L. Tarr (1996).
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"Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time."
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