Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Books
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The YearlingAn American classic—and Pulitzer Prize–winning story—that shows the ultimate bond between child and pet, now in a lush keepsake...Read More -
The Secret RiverA depression era story by a literary icon, The Secret River is just as timely as it is enchanting. This is a stunning picture book for the ages.Read More
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Christian Science Monitor, June 7, 2013
...of many US prisons, is very non-white. Set on a Florida bayou (scrub country) farm in the 1870s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ novel is far removed residentially, racially, and atmospherically from the neighborhoods where most of my students grew up. The...
Gainesville Sun, May 31, 2013
...Carolyn Harrell laid her grandmother's handkerchiefs neatly on the table. "They were of the same era of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings," said the P.K. Yonge language arts teacher. Harrell used the handkerchiefs as decorations for her eighth-grade class' first...
St. Petersburg Times, April 23, 2013
...Flagler, former Sen. Claude Pepper, citrus baron Ben Hill Griffin Jr., Miami pioneer Julia Tuttle, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Dr. John Gorrie, the inventor of air conditioning. Scott loves to hand out awards of all...
Orlando Sentinel, April 17, 2013
...anti-lynching legislation and vowed that he would do everything to stop African-Americans from voting, is a hero. But Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who became close personal friends with poor Floridians and a supporter of Zora Neale Hurston and Mary Bethune,...
Topeka Capital-Journal, February 28, 2013
...book presents Florence Mills as a positive role model for readers of all ages. “The Secret River” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon, Antheneum, 2011, ages 5-9. Calpurnia and her dog, Buggy-horse, discover a secret...
Endless Vacation, February 15, 2013
...and personal. Keep going north on Route 301 for 35 minutes until you reach Cross Creek, home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park. This is where the writer penned the Pulitzer-winning The Yearling and the lesser-known Cross Creek Cookery, with...
New York Times, February 14, 2013
...Mister Watson trilogy. Joy Williams on Key West. Wells Tower has some fabulous Florida stories. The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, is a great old Florida book. Denis Johnsons Fiskadoro, I think that qualifies, too its a fever-dream set on a...
Gainesville Sun, May 31, 2013
...Carolyn Harrell laid her grandmother's handkerchiefs neatly on the table. "They were of the same era of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings," said the P.K. Yonge language arts teacher. Harrell used the handkerchiefs as decorations for her eighth-grade class' first...
Gainesville Sun, May 30, 2013
...and ?Guardian Angel 911,? about his early adulthood, in addition to his experience living next to author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and his visual art. The readings are planned for 2 p.m. Sunday at the Millhopper Branch Library, 3145 NW 43rd St., and at 2...
World News Network, May 29, 2013
...African American heritages can be found in the architecture and cuisine. Florida has attracted many writers such as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams, and continues to attract celebrities and athletes. It is...
StarBanner.com, May 26, 2013
...straight, but my intentions was as crooked as the Ocklawaha River.? ? from ?The Yearling,? by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. What moves more slowly than the water in the Rodman Reservoir? The politics of inertia. At least once in a while, the St. Johns...
Orlando Home And Leisure, May 21, 2013
...wrote, as his first and arguably best novel, an exceedingly bittersweet and obviously hopeless romance. The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. How odd it is that Rawlings’ Pulitzer Prize-winning, 1938 novel about a boy’s attachment to a wild...
Gainesville Sun, May 19, 2013
...straight, but my intentions was as crooked as the Ocklawaha River." ? from "The Yearling," by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. What moves more slowly than the water in the Rodman Reservoir? The politics of inertia. At least once in a while the St. Johns...
World News Network, May 14, 2013
...African American heritages can be found in the architecture and cuisine. Florida has attracted many writers such as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams, and continues to attract celebrities and athletes. It is...
