The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() While considering her writing as lacking the depth and "tough-mindedness" Rawlings' greatest triumph, was hailed in 1938 as a "classic" of American popular fiction. "No trouble" was a modest understatement for a success that included a Pulitzer Prize novel and two others in the final consideration for the award, two honorary college degrees and a fortune That short story "sold like a shot, and I have had no trouble since," Mrs. "Then I thought, well, just one more," she told a New York Times reporter years later. Rawlings will be buried near her Cross Creek farm near Gainesville.įor more than ten years, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings tried hard to become a fiction writer-with complete failure. The funeral service will be held here at 11 A.M. Surviving is her second husband, Martin Baskin, to whom, she was marred in 1941. ![]() Rawlings had planned to devote five years of research and writing to The death of the 57-year-old novelist cut short her work on a new project-the life of Ellen Glasgow, the Virginia novelist. 15 (UP)-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, whose story of a Florida backwoods boy won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939, died of a cerebral hemorrhage last night in Flagler Hospital. Rawlings, 57, Novelist, Is Dead By THE NEW YORK TIMES Newspaper in Education (NIE) Teacher ResourcesĭecemOBITUARY Mrs. ![]()
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