Today in history.

By Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program

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Publish Date

1997

Publisher

Library of Congress

Language

eng

Pages

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Discusses journalist, short story writer, and novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who was born on August 8, 1896, in Washington, D.C. Rawlings is best known for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Yearling (1939). Cross Creek, published in 1942, tells of her enchantment with rural Florida.

subjects: American Authors, Frontier and pioneer life

People: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)

Places: Florida

Times: 20th century