Question: Which American writer, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings or William H. Gass, was born first?
Context: 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. 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. 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 Yearling is the 1938 novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.  It was published in March 1938.  It was the main selection of the Book of the Month Club in April 1938.  It was the number one best seller for twenty-three consecutive weeks in 1938.  As well as being the best-selling novel in America in 1938, it was 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 twenty-two other languages.  It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939. Cross Creek is a natural waterway in Florida connecting Lochloosa Lake to Orange Lake, in southeastern Alachua County.  It is 1.8 mi 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 "Cross Creek", which was made into a motion picture in 1983. The Yearling (1946) is a Technicolor family film drama directed by Clarence Brown, produced by Sidney Franklin, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about a young boy who adopts a trouble-making young deer.  The screenplay by Paul Osborn and John Lee Mahin (uncredited) was adapted from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's novel of the same name.  The film stars Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Chill Wills, and Forrest Tucker. 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 at 18700 South County Road 325. William Howard Gass (born July 30, 1924) is an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor.  He has written three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, "A Temple of Texts" (2006), won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.  His 1995 novel "The Tunnel" received the American Book Award.  His 2013 novel "Middle C" won the 2015 William Dean Howells Medal. The Secret River is a children's fantasy book by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of the "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 a magical river and catch fish for her starving family and friends, it has two themes common in Rawlings' writing, the magic of childhood and the struggle of people to survive in a harsh environment. 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' 1942 memoir, "Cross Creek".
Answer: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings