Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Crackers - Pineapple Press Biography - Sandra Wallus Sammons - Books - Rowman & Littlefield - 9781561644728 - May 1, 2010
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Crackers - Pineapple Press Biography


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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings worked hard to become a published author. Her efforts did not pay off until she moved to Cross Creek and met the Florida Crackers.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings grew up loving to write and hoping to become an author. Later she moved to Florida, where she lived out in the country at Cross Creek in an area called the Big Scrub. She met the people who lived there, the so-called Crackers. Their simple way of life fascinated her, so she wrote stories about them. One of her books, called The Yearling, was about a boy and a pet deer. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her dream of becoming a famous writer had come true.

Ages 9?12


72 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released May 1, 2010
ISBN13 9781561644728
Publishers Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 72
Dimensions 161 × 235 × 11 mm   ·   258 g
Language English  

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