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The life she wished to live : a biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The yearling

The life she wished to live : a biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The yearling

McCutchan, Ann, author.
Book 2021

"A comprehensive and engaging biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the beloved classic The Yearling. Washington, DC, born and Wisconsin educated, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an unlikely author of a coming-of-age novel about a poor central Florida child and his pet fawn-much less one that has become synonymous with Florida literature writ large. Rawlings was a tough, ambitious, and independent woman who refused...

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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953
Women authors, American Biography
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ISBN:
9780393353495
Edition:
First edition
Description:
xxii, 418 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Origins
The perfect daughter
Wisconsin
New York
Louisville
Rochester
The creek
South moon under
Coming apart
Golden apples
What about a novel about a boy
The widening circle
The yearling
Pulitzer
When the whippoorwill
Today's woman
Good women, marriage, and a memoir
Wartime, Zora
Lawsuit
What is home?
On trial
"I have never felt more inadequate"
A new outpost
The cosmic novel
Ferment
Losses
"Down"
Legacy
LCCN:
2020056028
Control Number:
3239800
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