Question: Who wrote The Secret River and The Yearling?
Context: Daina Reid is an Australian actress and director, known for Full Frontal from 1995-1997, I Love You Too (2010) and Skithouse (2003).  Her directing credits include episodes of The Secret River, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries & Offspring. The Secret River is an Australian television drama screened on ABC in June 2015.  This two-part miniseries is based on the novel of the same name written by Kate Grenville.  It follows the story of young couple, William and Sal Thornhill, who are transported to the new colony of New South Wales in 1805, giving a look into the colonisation of Australia and the escalating conflict between the original Indigenous inhabitants and the newly arrived white convicts and settlers. Sarah Thornhill (2011) is a novel by Australian author Kate Grenville.  It is the sequel to the author's 2005 novel "The Secret River".  It won the 2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian General Fiction Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. 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. The Secret River is a play by Andrew Bovell, based upon the novel of the same name by Kate Grenville.  Narrated by Dhirrumbin (originally played by Ursula Yovich), the drama is about a man who is exiled from London in the eighteenth century, and is sent with his family to a penal colony in the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, where he hopes to make a new start, but its inhabitants, the indigenous Dharug people, are not willing to give up their land. The Secret River, written by Kate Grenville in 2005, is a historical novel about an early 19th-century Englishman transported to Australia for theft.  The story explores what might have happened when Europeans colonised land already inhabited by Aboriginal people.  The book has been compared to Thomas Keneally's "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" and to Peter Carey's "True History of the Kelly Gang" for its style and historical theme. The Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Supporting Actor is an award presented annually at the Australian TV Week Logie Awards.  It was first awarded at the 58th Annual TV Week Logie Awards in 2016 and is given to recognise the outstanding performance of supporting actors in an Australian program.  The winner and nominees of this award are chosen by television industry juries.  Tim Minchin was the first winner for his role in The Secret River. Nathaniel Dean is an Australian actor and voice over artist.  His most recent performances include Sergeant Hallett in Ridley Scott's "", as well as colonial Australian settler William Thornhill in "The Secret River" for the Sydney Theatre Company. 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. Dunkirk is an American Thoroughbred Racehorse born in 2006.  He is the son of graded stakes winner and major sire Unbridled's Song and multiple Grade 1 winner Secret Status.  He is owned by a syndicate composed of John Magnier, Derrick Smith, and Michael Tabor and trained by Todd Pletcher during his short racing career.  Dunkirk acquired a measure of celebrity during the 2007 Keeneland Yearling Auction, where he sold for $3.7million.
Answer: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings