Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Crackers
Edition: 1st Ed
Series: Pineapple Press Young Reader Biography Series
Publisher: Pineapple Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sarasota, FL
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 978156164
Subjects: Biography; Florida; Crackers
Genres: Biography
Description: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings worked hard to become a published author. Her efforts did not pay off until she moved to Cross Creek and met the Florida Crackers.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings grew up loving to write and hoping to become an author. Later she moved to Florida, where she lived out in the country at Cross Creek in an area called the Big Scrub. She met the people who lived there, the so-called Crackers. Their simple way of life fascinated her, so she wrote stories about them. One of her books, called The Yearling, was about a boy and a pet deer. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her dream of becoming a famous writer had come true.

Ages 9–12