American · 1896–1953
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 for "The Yearling," the story of a Florida boy who adopts a fawn. The novel became a beloved American classic, adapted into film and taught in schools for generations. Rawlings lived in rural Florida and wrote about its landscape and people with documentary attention. Her memoir "Cross Creek" describes her life among orange groves and scrub.