query: How did Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings die?

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: autobiography ""No maid of perfection--and now I have one--can fill the strange emptiness she left in a remote corner of my heart. I think of her often, and I know she does of me, for she comes once a year to see me"". When "Cross Creek" was turned into a 1983 film, actress Alfre Woodard was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as GeeChee. Rawlings died in 1953 in St. Augustine of a cerebral hemorrhage. She bequeathed most of her property to the University of Florida, Gainesville, where she taught creative writing in Anderson

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American author 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 long before the concept of young adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists. Marjorie Kinnan was born in 1896 in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Ida May (née Traphagen) and

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park

text: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park is a Florida State Park and historic site located on the former homestead of Pulitzer Prize-winning Florida author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953). A National Historic Landmark, it is located in Cross Creek, Florida, between Ocala and Gainesville at 18700 South County Road 325. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park is located on the eastern shore of Orange Lake, a short way south of the village of Cross Creek. The park is about in size, but is adjacent to public lands totalling about historically part of the Rawlings property.

text: August and September. Amenities include two short hiking trails and park employees that bring 1930s rural Florida to life with period clothing and stories. In addition, guests are invited to pick and sample oranges from the many trees within the property. Florida state parks are open between 8 a.m. and sundown every day of the year (including holidays). The cost is $3 per car to enter the park. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park is a Florida State Park and historic site located on the former homestead of Pulitzer Prize-winning Florida author Marjorie Kinnan

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: Hall. In return, her name was given to a new dormitory dedicated in 1958 as Rawlings Hall which occupies prime real estate in the heart of the campus. Her land at Cross Creek is now the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park. Norton Baskin survived her by 44 years, passing away in 1997. They are buried side-by-side at Antioch Cemetery near Island Grove, Florida. Her tombstone, with Baskin's inscription, reads "Through her writing she endeared herself to the people of the world." Rawlings' reputation has managed to outlive those of many of her contemporaries. A posthumously published children's book, "The

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: 1920 became a chapter of the national senior women's society, Mortar Board. She met Charles Rawlings while working for the school literary magazine, and married him in 1919. Kinnan briefly worked for the YWCA editorial board in New York City. The couple moved to Louisville, Kentucky, writing for the "Louisville Courier-Journal" and then Rochester, New York both writing for the "Rochester Journal", and Marjorie writing a syndicated column called "Songs of the Housewife". In 1928, with a small inheritance from her mother, the Rawlings purchased a 72-acre (290,000 m²) orange grove near Hawthorne, Florida, in a hamlet named Cross Creek

text: A public parking area and boat ramp are located south of the house, gardens, and outbuildings of the Rawlings home. The home is a rambling single-story wood frame structure, whose central core is a dogtrot house dating to the 19th century. Other buildings include a pump house, barn, and a small tenant house. Of these, only the pump house is also of 19th-century origin. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, a native of Washington, DC, and her husband Charles purchased a orange grove in 1929, including the old dogtrot house. They set about enlarging and adapting the house to their use, and both

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: Hurston visited her at Cross Creek. But in keeping with race relations of the time, she was made to sleep with Idella, the black maid, in the "tenant house", not in Marjorie's house. Rawlings' views on race relations were much different than her neighbors, castigating white Southerners for infantilizing African Americans and labeling their economic differences with whites "a scandal", but simultaneously considered whites superior. She described her African-American employee Idella as "the perfect maid". Their relationship is described in the book "Idella: Marjorie Rawlings' "Perfect Maid"", by Idella Parker and Mary Keating. Biographers have noted her longing for a

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: Beatrice and Leroy. After a few weeks, Leroy aggressively demanded more earnings from Rawlings and threatened her. She decided he had to leave, which caused her distress because she did not want GeeChee to go with him, and was sure she would. GeeChee eventually decided to stay with Rawlings, but GeeChee began to drink heavily and abandoned her. Weeks later, Rawlings went out searching for GeeChee and drove her back to her estate, describing GeeChee as a "Black Florence Nightingale". GeeChee was unable to stop herself from drinking, which led a heartbroken Rawlings to dismiss her. Rawlings stated in her

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: for its location between Orange Lake and Lochloosa Lake. She brought the place to international fame through her writing. She was fascinated with the remote wilderness and the lives of Cross Creek residents, her "Florida cracker" neighbors, and felt a profound and transforming connection to the region and the land. Wary at first, the local residents soon warmed to her and opened up their lives and experiences to her. Marjorie filled several notebooks with descriptions of the animals, plants, Southern dialect, and recipes and used these descriptions in her writings. Rawlings' early efforts focused on the romance genre. Encouraged by

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: part of the GeeChee people. In the book Rawlings said GeeChee's mother lived in nearby Hawthorne, Florida and GeeChee was blind in one eye from a fight she was involved in. GeeChee was employed by Rawlings on and off for nearly two years in which GeeChee dutifully made life easier for Rawlings. GeeChee revealed to Rawlings that her boyfriend named Leroy was serving time in prison for manslaughter, and asked Rawlings for help in gaining his release. She arranged for Leroy to be paroled to her and come work for her estate, and had a wedding on the grounds for

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: miles south of St. Augustine. In 1941 Rawlings married Ocala hotelier Norton Baskin (1901–1997), and he remodeled an old mansion into the Castle Warden Hotel in St. Augustine (currently the Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum). After World War II, he sold the hotel and managed the Dolphin Restaurant at Marineland, which was then Florida's number one tourist attraction. Rawlings and Baskin made their primary home at Crescent Beach, and Rawlings and Baskin both continued their respective occupations independently. When a visitor to the Castle Warden Hotel suggested she saw the influence of Rawlings in the decor, Baskin protested, saying,

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: a brief vindication, but the verdict was overturned in appellate court and Rawlings was ordered to pay damages in the amount of $1 US. The toll the case took on Rawlings was great, in both time and emotion. Reportedly, Rawlings had been shocked to learn of Cason's reaction to the book, and felt betrayed. After the case was over, she spent less time in Cross Creek and never wrote another book about Florida, though she had been considering doing a sequel to "Cross Creek." With money she made from "The Yearling", Rawlings bought a beach cottage at Crescent Beach, ten

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: Florida area, she was often considered a regional writer. Rawlings herself rejected this label saying, "I don't hold any brief for regionalism, and I don't hold with the regional novel as such … don't make a novel about them unless they have a larger meaning than just quaintness." In 1943, Rawlings faced a libel suit for "Cross Creek", filed by her neighbor Zelma Cason, whom Rawlings had met the first day she moved to Florida. Cason had helped to soothe the mother made upset by her son's depiction in "Jacob's Ladder". Cason claimed Rawlings made her out to be a

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: "You do not see Mrs. Rawlings' fine hand in this place. Nor will you see my big foot in her next book. That's our agreement. She writes. I run a hotel." After purchasing her land in New York, Rawlings spent half the year there and half the year with Baskin in St. Augustine. Her singular admitted vanity was cooking. She said, "I get as much satisfaction from preparing a perfect dinner for a few good friends as from turning out a perfect paragraph in my writing." Rawlings befriended and corresponded with Mary McLeod Bethune and Zora Neale Hurston. Zora Neale

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: to me as she could stand up to anybody in any department of endeavor but time after time when she was asked to go some place or to do something she would accept -'if I would go with her.'" In her autobiography "Cross Creek" first published in 1942, Rawlings described how she owned many acres of land and also hired many people to help her with day-to-day chores and activities. An entire chapter of the book is dedicated to one woman she hired, whose name was Beatrice, but whom she was affectionately known as "GeeChee", because the woman was ethnically

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: same year, she and her husband Charles were divorced; living in rural Florida did not appeal to him. One of her least well-received books, "Golden Apples", came out in 1935. It tells the stories of several people who suffer from unrequited love from people unsuited for them. Rawlings herself was disappointed in it, and in a 1935 letter to her publisher Max Perkins, she called it "interesting trash instead of literature." But she found immense success in 1938 with "The Yearling", a story about a Florida boy and his pet deer and his relationship with his father, which she originally

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: a man or a mother. She combines the more violent characteristics of both and those who ask for or accept her ministrations think nothing at being cursed loudly at the very instant of being tenderly fed, clothed, nursed, or guided through their troubles. Cason was represented by one of the first female lawyers in Florida, Kate Walton. Cason was reportedly profane indeed (one of her neighbors reported her swearing could be heard for a quarter of a mile), wore pants, had a fascination with guns, and was just as extraordinarily independent as Rawlings herself. Rawlings won the case and enjoyed

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: "hussy". Rawlings had assumed their friendship was intact and spoke with her immediately. Cason went ahead with the lawsuit seeking $100,000 US for invasion of privacy (as the courts found libel too ambiguous). It was a cause of action that had never been argued in a Florida court. Rawlings used Cason's forename in the book, but described her in this passage:Zelma is an ageless spinster resembling an angry and efficient canary. She manages her orange grove and as much of the village and county as needs management or will submit to it. I cannot decide whether she should have been

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: Arthur Frank Kinnan, an attorney for the US Patent Office. She grew up in the Brookland neighborhood and was interested in writing as early as age six, and submitted stories to the children's sections of newspapers until she was 16. At age 15, she entered into a contest a story titled "The Reincarnation of Miss Hetty", for which she won a prize. She attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she joined Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and received a degree in English in 1918. She was selected as a member of the local senior women's honor society on campus, which in

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: intended as a story for young readers. It was selected for the Book-of-the-Month Club, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939. MGM purchased the rights to the film version, which was released in 1946, and it made her famous. In 1942, Rawlings published "Cross Creek", an autobiographical account of her relationships with her neighbors and her beloved Florida hammocks. Again it was chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club, and it was even released in a special armed forces edition, sent to servicemen during World War II. Rawlings' final novel, "The Sojourner", published in 1953 and set in a

title: The Secret River (Rawlings book)

text: Camp, an illustrator and friend. From that conversation, Camp produced a series of paintings to illustrate the idea. In 1947 Rawlings sent "The Secret River"'s manuscript to Perkins, and Camp visited his office in New York with the paintings. When Perkins responded with suggestions, Rawlings confessed to him that she was not completely pleased with Camp's illustrations. By June of that year, Perkins' death from pneumonia and Rawlings' own personal problems had derailed the project. After Rawlings' death in 1953, the manuscript for "The Secret River" was the only complete manuscript found among her papers. In "Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Rivers"

title: The Secret River (Rawlings book)

text: The Secret River (Rawlings book) The Secret River is a children's fantasy book by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of "The Yearling". Published in 1955, "The Secret River" received a Newbery Honor Award. The first edition, illustrated by Caldecott Medal winner Leonard Weisgard, was issued after Rawlings' death. The book was revised and reissued in 2009 with illustrations by Caldecott Medalists Leo and Diane Dillon. The new edition received an international children's book design award in 2012. "The Secret River" is the only book Rawlings wrote specifically for children. The story of young Calpurnia, who goes on a quest to find

title: Cross Creek (film)

text: Cross Creek (film) Cross Creek is a 1983 film starring Mary Steenburgen as "The Yearling" author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The film is directed by Martin Ritt and is based in part on Rawlings's 1942 memoir "Cross Creek". In 1928 in New York State, aspiring author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Steenburgen) advises her husband that her last book was rejected by a publisher, she has bought an orange grove in Florida, and she is leaving him to go there. She drives to the nearest town alone, and arrives in time for her car to die. Local resident Norton Baskin (Peter Coyote) takes

title: The Secret River (Rawlings book)

text: Young, in their article "Books do justice to subjects of civil rights, racism", praise "The Secret River" as "A rare picture book depicting everyday black life". They believe modern readers will enjoy Calpunia and Buggy-horse as much as the original audience. "Children's Literature" agreed that the reissue would renew interest in the book. The Secret River (Rawlings book) The Secret River is a children's fantasy book by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of "The Yearling". Published in 1955, "The Secret River" received a Newbery Honor Award. The first edition, illustrated by Caldecott Medal winner Leonard Weisgard, was issued after Rawlings' death.

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: Secret River", won a Newbery Honor in 1956, and movies were made, long after her death, of her story "Gal Young 'Un", and her semi-fictionalized memoir "Cross Creek" (Norton Baskin, then in his eighties, made a cameo appearance in the latter movie as a man sitting in a rocking chair). In 2008, the United States Postal Service unveiled a stamp bearing Rawlings' image, in her honor. She was named a Great Floridian in 2009 by the state of Florida. The program honors persons who made “major contributions to the progress and welfare" of Florida. Short Stories Novels and Story Collections

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: Her first novel, "South Moon Under", was published in 1933. The book captured the richness of Cross Creek and its environs in telling the story of a young man, Lant, who must support himself and his mother by making and selling moonshine, and what he must do when a traitorous cousin threatens to turn him in. Moonshiners were the subject of several of her stories, and Rawlings lived with a moonshiner for several weeks near Ocala to prepare for writing the book. "South Moon Under" was included in the Book-of-the-Month Club and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. That

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: her editor at Scribner's, Maxwell Perkins, who was impressed by the letters she wrote him about her life in Cross Creek, she began writing stories set in the Florida scrub country. In 1930, Scribner's accepted two of her stories, "Cracker Chidlings" and "Jacob's Ladder", both about the poor, backcountry Florida residents who were quite similar to her neighbors at Cross Creek. Local reception to her stories was mixed between puzzlement concerning whom she was writing about, and rage, since one mother apparently recognized her son as a subject in a story and threatened to whip Rawlings until she was dead.

title: Wally Kinnan

text: Wally Kinnan Henry Wallace "Wally" Kinnan (March 7, 1919 – November 22, 2002) was a decorated World War II hero, also was one of the first well known U.S. pioneer television broadcast meteorologists. Kinnan held American Meteorological Society Television Seal #3. Kinnan, who also served in World War II as a B-17 bomber pilot and then an Advanced Weather Officer attaining the rank of Captain in the United States Air Force before resigning in March 1953 to enter broadcasting in Oklahoma. Kinnan was born to David V. Kinnan and Hazel Hamer. He met his wife, the former Marjorie G. Ahrendt

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: find those variousGreat towns I knew fused into one, burned Together in the fire of my despising..." She was criticized throughout her career for being uneven with her talent in writing, something she recognized in herself, and that reflected periods of depression and artistic frustration. She has been described as having unique sensibilities; she wrote of feeling "vibrations" from the land, and often preferred long periods of solitude at Cross Creek. She was known for being remarkably strong-willed, but after her death, Norton Baskin wrote of her, "Marjorie was the shyest person I have ever known. This was always strange

title: Timothy A. Kinnan

text: worked with military representatives of NATO and Partnership for Peace member nations to develop policy recommendations for the political authorities of the alliance. Until February 2007 he was Vice President, C4ISR at Lockheed Martin Corporation. Timothy A. Kinnan Timothy Alan Kinnan (born April 24, 1948) was a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force he retired from active duty in September 2004. Kinnan was born in Tacoma, Washington to the late Henry Wallace ("Wally") Kinnan, and Marjorie Ahrendt. His father, Wally Kinnan, a pioneering television meteorologist and early television personality, was also a B-17 pilot during World War II

title: Timothy A. Kinnan

text: Timothy A. Kinnan Timothy Alan Kinnan (born April 24, 1948) was a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force he retired from active duty in September 2004. Kinnan was born in Tacoma, Washington to the late Henry Wallace ("Wally") Kinnan, and Marjorie Ahrendt. His father, Wally Kinnan, a pioneering television meteorologist and early television personality, was also a B-17 pilot during World War II and was shot down, spending nearly two years as a POW in Stalag Luft III. While interned Wally was a founding member of the Sagan Serenaders, a group of musicians who were immortalized in the

title: Ellen Glasgow

text: Her autobiography, "The Woman Within", published in 1954, years after her death, details her progression as an author and the influences essential for her becoming an acclaimed Southern woman writer. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was gathering information for her commissioned biography of Ellen Glasgow prior to her death. Glasgow died in her sleep at home on November 21, 1945, and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia maintains Glasgow's papers. Copies of Glasgow's correspondence may be found in the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings papers at the George A. Smathers

title: Florida State Parks in Alachua County

text: trails provide opportunities for hiking, horseback riding, and bicycling. Ranger-led activities are offered on weekends, November through April. Fishing on Lake Wauburg is allowed and a boat ramp provides access for canoes and boats with electric motors. Full-facility campsites are available for overnight visitors. The park is a 'gateway site' for the Great Florida Birding Trail. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park is a Florida State Park and historic site located on the former homestead of Florida author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It is located in Cross Creek, Florida, between Ocala and Gainesville. The address is 18700 South County Road 325.

title: Hawthorne, Florida

text: bicycling, horseback riding, hunting, fishing, canoeing, and boating. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park, about fourteen miles southwest of Hawthorne, maintains the "authentic Florida cracker homestead" where Rawlings lived and wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning books. Although Rawlings did not live in Hawthorne, she used the Hawthorne post office and received mail addressed to "Hawthorn". The city owns and maintains Hawthorne Athletic Park, which has four dual-use baseball-softball fields, a multi-purpose field, a playground, concession stand, and picnic facility. A non-profit organization, Hawthorne Youth Sports, offers a variety of sports for children in the area: baseball, softball, t-ball, tackle football, soccer,

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: northern setting, was about the life of a man and his relationship to his family: a difficult mother who favors her other, first-born son and his relationship to this absent older brother. To absorb the natural setting so vital to her writing, she bought an old farmhouse in Van Hornesville, New York and spent part of each year there until her death. The novel was less well received critically than her Florida writings, and did little to enhance her literary reputation. She published 33 short stories from 1912–49. As many of Rawling's works were centered in the North and Central

text: developed their careers as writers. Marjorie first achieved significant notice with stories published in "Scribner's Magazine", and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1939 for "The Yearling". Her writing was infused with details from the central Florida region where she made her home. Upon her death in 1953, the property was bequeathed to a foundation of the University of Florida. It has been managed by the state ever since, the house opening to the public in 1970. Activities include hiking and hourly tours Thursday through Sunday, at 10 a.m. 11 a.m. and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., except in

title: Wally Kinnan

text: the war." The 1963 motion picture "The Great Escape", which greatly depicts some of the Serenders and Kinnan's experiences, showed a choir singing while the escape started but in actuality, it was the Serenaders. The Serenaders contributed to the effort regularly by practicing their instruments to mask the sound of digging. Kinnan's youngest son, USAF Lt. Gen. Timothy Kinnan, relates that his father, through encoded letters to his wife Marjorie, informed the United States War Department that fifty of the escapees were recaptured by the Germans and executed by firing squad. The letters were decoded by the U.S. government and

title: Cross Creek, Florida

text: Creek is well known as the home of the American author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. She wrote four of her books while actually living there, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Yearling", which was adapted as the 1946 film of the same name, and her memoir, "Cross Creek", which was adapted as the 1983 film. Cross Creek was settled in the 19th century. Rawlings house may have been built in the 1880s. Rawlings reported that Cross Creek was home to just seven families, five white and two black, when she moved there in 1928. The roads were unpaved and there was

title: Robert B. Radnitz

text: cool, clear dip of mountain spring water" and was made "without one false, hayseed note or drop of sugar". Radnitz' 1983 film "Cross Creek", adapted from the memoir of the same title by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, tells her story of how she started writing while living in central Florida. The picture, which starred Mary Steenburgen, earned four Academy Award nominations. Radnitz died at age 85 on June 6, 2010, of complications from a stroke at his home in Malibu, California. He was survived by his wife, the former Pearl Turner. Robert B. Radnitz Robert Bonoff Radnitz (August 9, 1924 –

title: Wally Kinnan

text: Fawbush-Miller Tornado team. Kinnan died at the age of 83 of an aortic aneurysm on Friday, November 22, 2002 in Houston, Texas. The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia posthumously inducted Kinnan into their Hall of Fame in 2009. Wally Kinnan Henry Wallace "Wally" Kinnan (March 7, 1919 – November 22, 2002) was a decorated World War II hero, also was one of the first well known U.S. pioneer television broadcast meteorologists. Kinnan held American Meteorological Society Television Seal #3. Kinnan, who also served in World War II as a B-17 bomber pilot and then an Advanced Weather Officer attaining the rank

title: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

text: male child through her writings, as far back as her first story as a teenage girl in "The Reincarnation of Miss Hetty", and repeated throughout several works, letters, and characters, most notably in "The Yearling". In fact, she stated that as a child she had a gift for telling stories, but that she demanded all her audiences be boys. Her hatred of cities was intense: she wrote a sonnet titled, "Having Left Cities Behind Me" published in "Scribner's" in 1938 to illustrate it (excerpt):"Now, having left cities behind me, turnedAway forever from the strange, gregariousHuddling of men by stones, I

title: Wally Kinnan

text: George S. Patton’s Third Army, on April 29, 1945, Kinnan and his fellow POWs in Stalag VII-A were liberated. Kinnan would then spend his processing time at Camp Lucky Strike before being sent stateside. Official records have initial capture date as August 17, 1943 with official repatriation to the United States as of June 30, 1945. After being repatriated, Kinnan attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and received his degree in Meteorology. After the creation of the United States Air Force in 1947, Kinnan became a USAF Weather Officer. During the Korean War, Kinnan served in weather service assignments

title: Ponce de Leon Hotel

text: Hurston, Robert Frost, John Dos Passos, and, most particularly, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, visited or lived in St. Augustine during this time, and there was an active community of artists. During World War II, the Ponce de Leon Hotel was taken over by the federal government and was used as a Coast Guard Training Center. St. Augustine is considered to be the birthplace of the Coast Guard Reserve, as one of the first classes to graduate from Reserve officer training did so at St. Augustine in May 1941. From 1942 until the end of the war in 1945, thousands of young

title: Martin Ritt

text: women who (either as a personal favor or in exchange for payment) allowed their names to be listed as writers for scripts actually authored by blacklisted writers. The film was based on the experiences of, and written by, one of Ritt's closest friends, screenwriter Walter Bernstein, who was blacklisted for eight years beginning in 1950. Ritt scored another hit with "Cross Creek", the story of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of "The Yearling". It was nominated for (but did not win) four Oscars, including Best Supporting Actress Alfre Woodard and Best Supporting Actor Rip Torn. He and his wife Adele had

title: Cross Creek, Florida

text: "The Creek" was permanently altered. By the late twentieth century the community would have been nearly unrecognizable to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The unique geographical environs and the presence of a few older houses (including Mrs. Rawlings' home, now both a Florida State Park and a National Historic Site), have helped Cross Creek to retain some local color and given many of the residents a continued sense of exceptionality. The nearest public high school and elementary school are in Hawthorne, fifteen miles distant. There is a charter school in Micanopy, nine miles away. Cross Creek, Florida Cross Creek is an unincorporated

title: Privacy laws of the United States

text: the private affairs of another. In a famous case from 1944, author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was sued by Zelma Cason, who was portrayed as a character in Rawlings' acclaimed memoir, "Cross Creek". The Florida Supreme Court held that a cause of action for invasion of privacy was supported by the facts of the case, but in a later proceeding found that there were no actual damages. Intrusion upon seclusion occurs when a perpetrator intentionally intrudes, physically, electronically, or otherwise, upon the private space, solitude, or seclusion of a person, or the private affairs or concerns of a person, by use

title: Mary Kinnan

text: Mary Kinnan Mary "Polly" Kinnan (born August 22, 1763) was an American woman held captive by Shawnee Native Americans from 1791 to 1794, who published an account of her experience in 1795 in the book "A true narrative of the sufferings of Mary Kinnan: who was taken prisoner by the Shawnee Nation of Indians on the thirteenth day of May, 1791, and remained with them till the sixteenth of August, 1794". Kinnan was taken from her Virginia home in a Shawnee raid on her home near the Tygart Valley River in what is now Randolph County, West Virginia. At the

title: Marineland of Florida

text: early days, prompting writers Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, John Dos Passos, and Ernest Hemingway to visit Moby Dick's Bar located there. Ms. Rawlings was married to Norton Baskin who at one time (1950s/early 1960s) was the operator/manager of the Dolphin Restaurant/Moby Dick Lounge. The park's facilities were very popular with tourists and also used for numerous movies, including "Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954) and "Revenge of the Creature" (1955). Trained dolphins became an additional attraction in the early 1950s as Marineland became one of Florida's major attractions, attracting over 900,000 visitors per year with peak attendance in the mid-1970s. The

title: Wally Kinnan

text: on Kwajalein Atoll, Guam and Hawaii. He was a pioneer of the Severe Storm Center of the Air Weather Service. Deciding a career in broadcast meteorology was an exciting field, he resigned his commission from the Air Force in 1953 to become one of the earliest on-camera meteorologists. Kinnan, who was affably nicknamed "The Weatherman", was a well-known personality in Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Tampa. Kinnan worked alongside sports anchor Jim Graner at WKYC-TV in Cleveland; later, from 1978 to 1980, he worked at station WTSP in Tampa, FL. Kinnan was one of the first three meteorologists, joining Francis

title: Wally Kinnan

text: having enough to eat. Near the end of 1943, there were many new prisoners coming into the camp. Kinnan persuaded the German captors to find some decent musical instruments so they could put on some organized musical programs. Kinnan and a group of Who’s Who’s of music that were all interred in German Camps founded a band called the "Sagan Serenaders". Kinnan and Pilot Officer Leonard Whiteley of the British Royal Air Force organized and led the group. The Serenaders received donated musical instruments from aid organizations and whatsoever the German captors could scrounge up. One instrument was an unusual

title: Wally Kinnan

text: at North High School in Columbus, OH where they both attended. He has two sons, David E. Kinnan, Esq. and Timothy A. Kinnan. Both of his sons followed in his footsteps and joined the US Air Force. David was an Air Force JAG Officer and Tim went on to a full military career as a fighter pilot and general officer. Wally was a trumpet player with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra and Charlie Barnet during his undergraduate years at Ohio State out of love for music and as a way to help pay for school. Kinnan attended North High School in

title: Mary Kinnan

text: the reader's heart will be "melted with sorrow" in response to Kinnan's story. In doing so, it became the template for later fictional captivity stories that focus on a protagonist's plight and emotions. Mary Kinnan Mary "Polly" Kinnan (born August 22, 1763) was an American woman held captive by Shawnee Native Americans from 1791 to 1794, who published an account of her experience in 1795 in the book "A true narrative of the sufferings of Mary Kinnan: who was taken prisoner by the Shawnee Nation of Indians on the thirteenth day of May, 1791, and remained with them till the

title: Jade Rawlings

text: a 50% accuracy rate). He was dropped to the VFL. In 2005 Rawlings did not fare much better, his knee troubles ruling him out for the Bulldogs after Round 14 of that year. Rawlings soon got into internal disputes at the club and was traded to his third club, the Kangaroos. Rawlings joined his brother Brady at the Kangaroos and was believed to be one of the reasons for moving to the club. After his recruitment, coach Dean Laidley did not guarantee Rawlings a senior game in 2006, saying he had to earn his spot. Jade played most of the

title: Wally Kinnan

text: K. Davis and Kenneth H. Jehn, to earn the "Seal of Approval" from the American Meteorological Society. Wally often told the story of how they drew straws to determine who would be the first, second, and third meteorologist to earn the seal. Kinnan was number 3, while Davis and Jehn were numbers 1 and 2, respectively. He later went on to serve on the Board of the American Meteorological Society for Radio and Television Broadcasting and the Committee on Industrial Meteorology. He was also the founding Director of the Franklin Institute Weather Center with Col. Robert C. Miller of the

title: U.S. Route 301 in Florida

text: side before the road passes by the historic Melton-Shands House and intersects with CR 318. After US 301 crosses the Alachua County Line it runs along a four-lane causeway through marshland before entering Island Grove, where the road intersects with another former section (Southeast 201st Terrace) and CR 325, which leads to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park. From there, the road makes a slight curve to the right to cross over the railroad line. Both the tracks and the road run along the east coast of Lochloosa Lake in Lochloosa. The interchange with SR 20 in Hawthorne, also includes

title: Alice Dalgliesh

text: authors and illustrators including Robert A. Heinlein, Marcia Brown, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Katherine Milhous, Will James, Leonard Weisgard, and Leo Politi. Her prominence in the field of children's literature led to her being appointed the first president of the Children's Book Council, a national nonprofit trade association of children's book publishers and presses. Born October 7, 1893 in Trinidad, British West Indies, to John and Alice (Haynes) Dalgliesh, Alice immigrated to England with her family when she was 13. Six years later she came to America to study kindergarten education at the Pratt Institute in New York City. She eventually

title: David McCheyne Newell

text: and Cowboys" (New York. The Century Co., 1927) and numerous short stories and articles. A naturalist and lifelong hunter, he was also for several years editor of "Field and Stream" and hosted a nature and hunting show during the early years of television in the 1950s. He accompanied Annie Oakley on hunting trips when she wintered in Florida before her death in 1926. He also befriended fellow Florida author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Newell moved to Leesburg, Florida in 1912. He studied at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, enlisting in the United States Army in his

title: The Yearling

text: by local musicians. The Yearling The Yearling is a novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings published in March 1938. It was the main selection of the Book of the Month Club in April 1938. It was the best-selling novel in America in 1938 and the seventh-best in 1939. It sold over 250,000 copies in 1938. It has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Russian and 22 other languages. It won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. Rawlings's editor was Maxwell Perkins, who also worked with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and other literary luminaries. She had submitted

title: The Yearling

text: The Yearling The Yearling is a novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings published in March 1938. It was the main selection of the Book of the Month Club in April 1938. It was the best-selling novel in America in 1938 and the seventh-best in 1939. It sold over 250,000 copies in 1938. It has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Russian and 22 other languages. It won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. Rawlings's editor was Maxwell Perkins, who also worked with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and other literary luminaries. She had submitted several projects to

title: Cross Creek (Florida)

text: "Cross Creek", which was made into a motion picture in 1983. Cross Creek (Florida) Cross Creek is a natural waterway in Florida connecting Lochloosa Lake to Orange Lake, in southeastern Alachua County. It is long, and carries the outflow from Lochloosa Lake into Orange Lake. It is normally navigable by small boats, but has completely dried up in droughts. The creek has been designated an Outstanding Florida Water. County Road 325 crosses the creek. Cross Creek gives its name to the community of Cross Creek, which is famous as the home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for the last 25 years

title: Cross Creek (Florida)

text: Cross Creek (Florida) Cross Creek is a natural waterway in Florida connecting Lochloosa Lake to Orange Lake, in southeastern Alachua County. It is long, and carries the outflow from Lochloosa Lake into Orange Lake. It is normally navigable by small boats, but has completely dried up in droughts. The creek has been designated an Outstanding Florida Water. County Road 325 crosses the creek. Cross Creek gives its name to the community of Cross Creek, which is famous as the home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for the last 25 years of her life, and for being the subject of her memoir

title: Chinsegut Hill Manor House

text: Thomas Edison, James Cash Penney, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Senator Claude Pepper, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. In 1958, the lease signed by the University of Florida expired and the university removed the books housed in the manor house, essentially abandoning the property. During the same year the University of South Florida obtained the manor house and surrounding property, signing a four-year lease as the University of Florida had previously. Under the governance of the University of South Florida, the Chinsegut Hill manor house has undergone several modifications and "modernizations” -in line with the university's intention to

title: Leonard Weisgard

text: Island", written by Brown. They collaborated again on "The Important Book", published by Harper & Brothers in 1949. Altogether, Weisgard illustrated at least 14 of Brown's books, including two that were published posthumously. (Brown wrote the text for six books that were published as by "Golden MacDonald". All were unpaged picture books illustrated by Weisgard and published by Doubleday.) Writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was a Newbery Medal runner-up in 1956 for "The Secret River", which Weisgard illustrated. Weisgard married Phyllis Monnot in 1951 and moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, with her and their three children in 1969. He died on January

title: Victor Nuñez

text: Care of Mother Baldwin" (1970). At the UCLA Film School, Nunez received an MFA in film directing with his thesis short film, "Charly Benson's Return to the Sea" (1972), and went on to make another short, "A Circle in the Fire" (1974). Nunez made his feature debut in 1979 with the film "Gal Young Un", which premiered at the 1979 New York Film Festival. "Gal Young Un", based on the short story by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, centers on a spinster woman who lives alone in the woods of north Florida until she is swept off her feet by an opportunistic

title: Feist (dog)

text: dog" in "The Sound and the Fury", but uses the spelling "fyce" in the stories "Was" and "The Bear" from the collection "Go Down, Moses": "a brave fyce dog is killed by a bear". In her 1938 novel "The Yearling", author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings uses the spelling of "feist" to refer to this dog. Claude Shumate, who wrote about the feist for "Full Cry" magazine, believed that the feist was descended from Native American dogs, mixed with small terriers from Britain, and was kept as early as the 17th century ("Full Cry", December, 1987). The breed was popularized by President

title: Juniper Prairie Wilderness

text: author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings visited the last two remaining inhabitants, Calvin and Mary Long in October 1933. She recorded the stories she was told on that occasion and other visits, which she worked into her novel "The Yearling" which was published in 1938 and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939. A movie of the same name was made based on the novel in 1946. Juniper Prairie Wilderness The Juniper Prairie Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Ocala National Forest in Florida, United States. The Juniper Prairie Wilderness was established in 1984 and covers an area of about 54

title: Haile Plantation, Florida

text: planter who developed a plantation here in 1854. Enslaved Africans lived on and worked the land. The Haile family ancestors include some who served in the American Revolutionary War. The Historic Haile Homestead, known as Kanapaha, still stands. It was featured in the 1979 movie "Gal Young 'Un", based on a Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings story. New construction of the planned development at Haile Plantation started in the late 1970s. Haile Plantation, Florida Haile Plantation, an unincorporated community and New Urbanism planned development, is a 2,600-household (1,700 acre) development of regional impact southwest of the city of Gainesville, within Alachua County,

title: Brunswick stew

text: in Brunswick, Georgia, says the first Brunswick stew was made in it on July 2, 1898, on nearby St. Simons Island. A competing story claims a Virginia state legislator's chef invented the recipe in 1828 on a hunting expedition. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, in her "Cross Creek Cookery" (1942), wrote that the stew, said to have been one of Queen Victoria's favorites, may have come from the original Brunswick: Braunschweig, Germany. List of stews Brunswick stew Brunswick stew is a traditional dish, popular in the American South, generally involving a tomato base, local beans, vegetables, and originally small game meat, though

title: Charles Scribner's Sons

text: Bookstores are now owned by Barnes & Noble. Charles Scribner's Sons Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton. The firm published "Scribner's Magazine" for many years. More recently, several Scribner titles and authors have garnered Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards and other merits. In 1978 the company merged with Atheneum and became The Scribner Book Companies. In

title: Charles Scribner's Sons

text: launched "Scribner's Magazine." The firm's headquarters were in the Scribner Building, built in 1893, on lower Fifth Avenue at 21st Street, and later in the Charles Scribner's Sons Building, on Fifth Avenue in midtown. Both buildings were designed by Ernest Flagg in a Beaux Arts style. The children's book division was established in 1934 under the leadership of Alice Dalgliesh. It published works by distinguished authors and illustrators including N.C. Wyeth, Robert A. Heinlein, Marcia Brown, Will James, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Leo Politi. Simon & Schuster reorganized their adult imprints into four divisions in 2012. Scribner became the Scribner

title: Charles Scribner's Sons

text: Charles Scribner's Sons Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton. The firm published "Scribner's Magazine" for many years. More recently, several Scribner titles and authors have garnered Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards and other merits. In 1978 the company merged with Atheneum and became The Scribner Book Companies. In turn it merged into Macmillan in 1984. Simon

title: Esther Forbes

text: Katherine in Madison, Wisconsin, where Cornelia was in graduate school and Katharine was teaching. During this time she attended the classes at the University of Wisconsin. While in Wisconsin, she joined the editorial board of the "Wisconsin Literary Magazine", along with another future Pulitzer Prizewinner, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. In 1919, she returned to Worcester and in late December began working for the editorial department of Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston. From 1924 to 1926, she wrote feature articles for the Boston Evening Transcript. She married Albert L. Hoskins, Jr., an attorney, on January 14, 1926, and left Houghton Mifflin. The

title: Cross Creek (film)

text: at the time. "Cross Creek" was not playing anywhere during the Academy season until Robert Radnitz, the producer, got the Malibu Cinema to book it. Radnitz made up handbills and had children giving them out in the Malibu area where many Academy members live. The film received four Academy Award nominations: It was also entered into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. Cross Creek (film) Cross Creek is a 1983 film starring Mary Steenburgen as "The Yearling" author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The film is directed by Martin Ritt and is based in part on Rawlings's 1942 memoir "Cross Creek". In 1928

title: Brookland (Washington, D.C.)

text: Weaver. It remains a relatively diverse and stable area of Washington. African American architect Romulus C. Archer designed homes, buildings, and churches in the area.. Brookland was also home to the playwright Jean Kerr and her playwright/critic husband Walter Kerr who taught at nearby CUA. The writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings spent her childhood in Brookland. Justine Ward, the music educator and author, lived in Brookland and built the large residence now occupied by Ronald McDonald House in the 1300 block of Quincy Street. CUA's School of Music is named in her honor. Also on Quincy Street is the Quincy House,

title: William M. Evarts

text: Skull and Bones. He served as a New York City district attorney, and later as General Counsel for E. H. Harriman, which later became the Union Pacific Railroad. He was president of two Windsor, Vermont, banks, and the chief financial backer of the Gridley Automatic Lathe "(manufactured by the Windsor Machine Co.)". In politics, Maxwell served as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives and was a Vermont State Fair Commissioner. Grandson Maxwell E. Perkins became the noted editor of Charles Scribner's Sons, and dealt with authors F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and James

title: David Nolan (American author)

text: History Month in 2009, he received the Governor's Points of Light Award for outstanding community service. On July 2, 2009, the 45th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he received the President's Volunteer Service Award from Barack Obama. He has served as president of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society and trustee of the Fort Mose Historical Society. He is a lecturer on historic, architectural, and literary subjects. Title: David Nolan Papers Inclusive Dates: 1960-1987 Creator: Nolan, David, 1946- Call Number: Mss 773; PH 3905; PH 3906 Quantity: 2.4 c.f. (6 archives boxes) and 104 photographs

title: Jeanette MacDonald

text: adaptation of a short story by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. MacDonald played a widow who has lost her son, but warms to orphan Claude Jarman Jr. It was her final film. Offers continued to come in, and in 1962, producer Ross Hunter proposed teaming MacDonald and Eddy for featured roles in his 1963 comedy "The Thrill of It All". They declined, and the roles were played by Arlene Francis and Edward Andrews. 20th Century Fox also toyed with the idea of MacDonald (Irene Dunne briefly was considered) for the part of Mother Abbess in the film version of "The Sound of

title: St. Johns River

text: land sale fraud and faulty draining reports from the Everglades. The company then found itself short of funds due to mismanagement. Torrential rains ruptured the newly constructed levees and dikes and forced the company by 1916 to go into receivership. Fell left Florida for Virginia in 1917. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings used the St. Johns as a backdrop in her books "South Moon Under" and "The Yearling", and several short stories. In 1933 she took a boat trip along the St. Johns with a friend. In the upper basin, she remarked on the difficulty of determining direction due to the river's

title: St. Johns River

text: he published in 1876. The river gave Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings access to the St. Johns from her homestead at Orange Lake. The region served as a major fishing attraction until a decline in water quality occurred in the 1940s, and since then further degradation of the river and its sources have occurred. In particular, Lake Apopka earned the designation of Florida's most polluted lake following a chemical spill in 1980 that dumped DDE in it. It has experienced chronic algal blooms caused by citrus farm fertilizer and wastewater runoff from nearby farms. The proliferation of largemouth bass ("Micropterus salmoides"), black

title: St. Johns River

text: unnavigable marsh in Indian River County. The St. Johns drainage basin of includes some of Florida's major wetlands. It is separated into three major basins and two associated watersheds for Lake George and the Ocklawaha River, all managed by the St. Johns River Water Management District. A variety of people have lived on or near the St. Johns, including Paleo-indians, Archaic people, Timucua, Mocama, French and Spanish settlers, Seminoles, slaves and freemen, Florida crackers, land developers, tourists and retirees. It has been the subject of William Bartram's journals, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' books, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's letters home. Although Florida

title: Dessie Smith Prescott

text: Flying Training Command, and spent her time in Texas. After the war was over, she moved back to Florida, where she would reside until her death. She was a close friend of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Dessie Smith Prescott Dessie Smith Prescott (August 4, 1906April 19, 2002) was Florida’s first professional woman guide and the first female licensed pilot in the state. She was inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame in 1999 for her work. Prescott was born on August 4, 1906 in Island Grove, Florida. Her parents died in the 1918 flu pandemic, and she went to live

title: Florida literature

text: Florida literature The literature of Florida, USA, is as varied as the state itself. Genres traditionally include fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and some of it may be considered part of the American regional Southern literature genre. Writers affiliated with the locale of Florida include William Bartram, Elizabeth Bishop, James Branch Cabell, Hart Crane, Stephen Crane, Harry Crews, Nilo Cruz, John Fleming, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Hiaasen, Jay Hopler, Zora Neale Hurston, José Martí, Campbell McGrath, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Wallace Stevens, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. A printing press began operating in St. Augustine in 1783. The Florida Publishers Group formed in 1983.

title: Maxwell Perkins

text: exploring his professional relationship with Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Perkins is portrayed by actor Malcolm McDowell. In the 2016 biographical drama film "Genius", based on A. Scott Berg's biography of the man, "Max Perkins: Editor of Genius", Perkins is portrayed by British actor Colin Firth. Maxwell Perkins William Maxwell Evarts "Max" Perkins (September 20, 1884 – June 17, 1947), was an American book editor, best remembered for discovering authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. Perkins was born on September 20, 1884, in New York City, to Elizabeth (Evarts) Perkins, a daughter of William M. Evarts, and Edward Clifford

title: Maxwell Perkins

text: worked with many other writers. He was the first to publish J. P. Marquand and Erskine Caldwell. His advice was responsible for the success of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, whose "The Yearling" (1938) grew out of suggestions made by Perkins. It became a best-seller and won the Pulitzer Prize. Alan Paton's "Cry, the Beloved Country" (1946) was another Perkins find. His penultimate discovery was James Jones, who approached Perkins in 1945. Perkins persuaded Jones to abandon the autobiographical novel he was working on and launched him on what would become "From Here to Eternity" (1951). By this time, Perkins' health was

title: Gal Young Un

text: the Florida Fine Arts Council and the remaining from private investors and had a gross revenue of $500,000. The film was based on a 1932 short story by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and shot entirely in Florida. It won the Silver Hugo Award for Best First Feature from the Chicago International Film Festival, top prize from the USA Film and Video Festival and the O. Henry Award. The "New Statesman" called it a "gem of a film" while Emanuel Levy called said it "helped shape regional cinema within the independent movement". Gal Young Un Gal Young 'Un is a 1979 American

title: Leland Hawes

text: graduate and undergraduate students in the humanities. He served for many years as a trustee of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society, an organization dedicated to promoting the work of Florida's emblematic novelist. He conducted an interview with the University of Florida in 2002. Leland Hawes Leland Mosley Hawes Jr. (June 18, 1929 – May 18, 2013) was an American newspaper reporter for the "Tampa Tribune". He had a long tenure at the paper and was involved in various projects after leaving the paper, including serving on the committee that selected the first six historical figures to be immortalized in bronze

title: M. C. Nambudiripad

text: of Earth" and "Martians" received awards from the Government of India. He was also an accomplished translator. Late in life, the many years spent translating J.D.Bernal’s "Science in History" into Malayalam (four volumes) won him the award for translation for 2002 from Kerala Sahithya Academy. When he was past 90, he took up translation of another book by Bernal, "The Social Function of Science"; the book was published by Sasthra Sahithya Parishad and released in Jan 2012. Apart from books on science, he also rendered into Malayalam two novels, "The Yearling" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1956) and "Lament on the

title: Death in children's literature

text: "The Tenth Good Thing About Barney", a child is challenged to think of good things about a lost pet named Barney, while he and his family prepare for memorial activities. The use of animals allows the authors to broach the subject of replacing a loved one, such as in "Charlotte’s Web" when Charlotte's memory lives on through her children. More examples are available in "The Yearling" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, "The Black Stallion" by Walter Farley, "Old Yeller" by "Fred Gipson" and "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls. One hypothesis for shielding children from death is that with

title: Michael Ching

text: work's additional venues have included the Abu Dhabi Music & Art Festival and the Lincoln Center Summer Institute program in West Memphis. Ching is best known for his operas. He provided his own libretti for his first two operas: "Levees" (1980), a New Orleans vampire story performed at Duke University; and "Cocks Must Crow" (1985), based on a Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings short story and performed at Greater Miami Opera. His early miniature opera "Leo: Opera in One Cat" is a jazz-based 15-minute one-act opera, with a libretto by Fernando Fonseca based on Cal Massey's story "Leo Spat". It premiered in

title: Tomoji Abe

text: 1954; Thomas Hardy's "Under the Greenwood Tree", 1936 and "Tess", 1969; Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe", 1952; Charles and Mary Lamb's "Tales from Shakespeare", 1954; Jack London's "Call of the Wild", 1955; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Silver Blaze", 1958; Mark Twain's "Adventures of Tom Sawyer", c. 1959; Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book", 1961; Jane Austen's "Emma", 1965 and "Persuasion", 1968; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' "The Yearling", 1965; Eleanor Farjeon's "The Silver Curlew", 1968; Walter de la Mare's "Stories from the Bible", 1970. "Fuyu no Yado" (Polish "Zimowa kwatera") trans. Ewelina Tchórzewska-Adamowska, Książka i Wiedza. 1973 "Nichi-Doku Taiko Kyogi" ("The Japan-Germany Athletic Games")

title: Mary Steenburgen

text: love with author H. G. Wells, played by her future first husband, Malcolm McDowell. In her third film, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1980 film "Melvin and Howard," playing Lynda Dummar, the wife of Melvin Dummar, then a trucker and aspiring singer, who claimed to have befriended reclusive eccentric Howard Hughes. Another notable film appearance came in the well-received 1983 film "Cross Creek," in which she played Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of "The Yearling". In 1985, she also starred in the movie "One Magic Christmas" as a mother and wife who falls on devastating

title: Chinsegut Hill

text: property purchase, Raymond met and married Margaret Dreier Robins and they extended and dramatically improved the property in subsequent years. The Robinses also increased the historical significance of the property through their involvement in politics. At Chinsegut Hill the Robinses entertained countless prominent guests including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, William Jennings Bryan, Thomas Edison, James Cash Penney, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Senator Claude Pepper, Soviet ambassadors, Britist Labor Minister Margaret Bondfield, Botanist Dr. John Small, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Photographs of scenes and people at Chinsegut Hill in the 1920s and 1930s are available in the

title: Anne Donahue

text: son. She is Roman Catholic, and is a member, lector and extraordinary minister of Holy Communion at the St. John the Evangelist RC Church in Northfield. Her favorite movies are "Life is Beautiful" and "Romero", and her favorite books are "The Yearling" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, "Little Men" by Louisa May Alcott and "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. Anne Donahue Anne de la Blanchetai Donahue is an American politician from the state of Vermont. She has served as a Republican member of the Vermont House of Representatives since 2003, representing the Washington-2 district, which includes the Washington County

title: Florida

text: is the flattest state in the United States. Lake Okeechobee is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. Florida's close proximity to the ocean influences many aspects of Florida culture and daily life. Florida is a reflection of influences and multiple inheritance; African, European, indigenous, and Latino 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 internationally known for golf, tennis, auto racing, and water sports. Several beaches in Florida have turquoise and

title: Al Burt

text: Herald" Sunday magazine on interesting people and places around Florida that drew him quite a following. Florida author David Nolan said he used to buy the Herald just so he could read Al Burt's column. Many of those columns were collected in book form in "Becalmed in the Mullet Latitudes" (1984), "Al Burt's Florida" (1997), and "Tropic of Cracker" (1999). A scholar and advocate of the Florida Cracker, Burt was a longtime trustee of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society—an organization that celebrated the life and work of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist who gave the Crackers dignity in American literature. He

title: Hamilton Holt

text: together leaders in non-traditional higher education. Many ideas from the meetings were integrated into the college's Conference Plan and helped establish the college's national reputation as a leading innovative teaching institution. Holt believed in the value of outstanding role models and brought to campus leaders in their fields including politicians such as presidents Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman; inventor Thomas Edison; business leader J. C. Penney; poet Carl Sandburg; writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; military leader General Omar Bradley; pioneering social worker Jane Addams of Hull House; jurist William O. Douglas, and actors such as James Cagney and Mary

title: Micanopy, Florida

text: war took place along the road southwest from Fort Micanopy to Fort Wacahoota, just inside modern Alachua County. A recent archaeological study has verified both forts as well as the location of two battlefields within the town limits: the Battle of Micanopy and the Battle of Welika Pond (1836). Micanopy's historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, where she wrote "The Yearling" and "Cross Creek," is in nearby Cross Creek. The house is operated as a museum. For an article on Micanopy from the Florida Historical Society see:

title: Wally Kinnan

text: put the aircraft into as stable a configuration that he could to maintain altitude and attitude. But the badly damaged aircraft, on fire, lost the right wing and continued to descend. In order to bail-out, Kinnan had to make his way to the nose hatch. However, the erratic flight of the damaged B-17 required him to crawl and pull himself along. As Kinnan was crawling, his parachute caught on some part of the aircraft which left Wally in frantic state trying to unbind himself and his parachute from the rapidly descending aircraft. During this process he had unbuckled his parachute