Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

American author

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – 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, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.

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