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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1896 - 1953

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling—about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn—won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name. The book was written before the concept of young adult fiction arose but is now commonly included in teen reading lists. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is the 6,329th most popular writer (down from 5,999th in 2024), the 11,576th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,745th in 2019) and the 841st most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ranks 6,329 out of 7,302. Before her are Barbara Pym, Vikram Seth, Karin Alvtegen, John Clellon Holmes, Christopher Smart, and Rosa María Britton. After her are Max Hastings, Thomas Lodge, Stephen Vincent Benét, J. G. Farrell, Stephen R. Donaldson, and Philip Massinger.

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Among people born in 1896, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ranks 267. Before her are Adele Astaire, Herb Drury, Uberto De Morpurgo, William Cameron Townsend, Elliott Nugent, and Yip Harburg. After her are Pavel Antokolsky, R. C. Sherriff, Louis Fischer, Ian Wolfe, Ivan Dresser, and Ruth Etting. Among people deceased in 1953, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ranks 189. Before her are Sara Adler, Ethel Muckelt, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Thomas Thorstensen, Alan Curtis, and Josef Ternström. After her are Herbert E. Ives, Edward Sedgwick, Roland Young, Alex James, George Barnes, and Robert F. Wagner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ranks 11,572 out of 20,380. After her are John Litel (1892), Adolphus Greely (1844), Shawn Johnson East (1992), Stephen Dunham (1964), Ryan Eggold (1984), Gangrel (1969), Joan Copeland (1922), Dorothy Thompson (1893), Hasim Rahman (1972), Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (1991), John Russell Pope (1874), and Patricia Barber (1955).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ranks 841. Before her are Crane Wilbur (1886), Meg Cabot (1967), N. Scott Momaday (1934), Abby Mann (1927), Eric Van Lustbader (1946), and John Clellon Holmes (1926). After her are Stephen Vincent Benét (1898), Stephen R. Donaldson (1947), Albert Maltz (1908), Richard Wilbur (1921), Gay Talese (1932), and Ellen Glasgow (1873).

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