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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 β December 14, 1953) was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels 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 name. The book was written before the concept of young adult fiction arose, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.
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GenderFemale
Birthday1896-08-08
Deathday1953-12-14 (57 years old)
Birth PlaceWashington, D.C., United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsFlorida Artists Hall of Fame, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, O. Henry Award, Honorary doctorate from the University of Florida, Florida Women's Hall of Fame
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