Title: Today in history
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.
Subjects: American Authors, Frontier and pioneer life
Places: Florida
People: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)
Time periods: 20th century