Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

American novelist (1896–1953)

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 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.

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 1 film (1946) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 2 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▼ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1946 The Yearling. Clarence Brown 134 min 35mm Color sound