Person Detail: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

General Information:
Full Name: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Biography: (1896-1953) Writer, novelist. Marjorie Rawlings was born in Washington, DC. She worked for the Rochester Journal in the 1930s. She lived part of each year in Van Hornesville, New York, beginning in 1947. In 2008 the United States Postal Service issued its twenty-fourth stamp in the Literary Arts series in honor of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Author's Timeline:
1896		(Unknown) County Marjorie Kinnan was born in Washington, DC in 1896.
1930		Monroe County Rawlings worked for the Rochester Journal in Rochester, New York in the 1930s.
1933		(Unknown) County South Moon Under Novel.
1935		(Unknown) County Golden Apples Novel.
1938		(Unknown) County The Yearling Novel. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.
1940		(Unknown) County When the Whippoorwill. Collection of short stories.
1942		(Unknown) County Cross Creek Novel.
1947		Herkimer County Rawlings lived part of each year in Van Hornesville, New York, beginning in 1947.
1953		(Unknown) County Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings died in Saint Augustine, Florida in 1953.
1953		(Unknown) County The Sojourner Novel.
1955		(Unknown) County The Secret River Children's book.