Today in history.
Contributors: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953.; Authors, American -- 20th century.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Florida.
Other titles: August 8
Description: Discusses journalist, short story writer, and novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who was born on August 8, 1896, in Washington, D.C. Rawlings is best known for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Yearling (1939). Cross Creek, published in 1942, tells of her enchantment with rural Florida.
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Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.