Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953) was an American writer known for her vivid storytelling and deep connection to rural Florida life. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 for her novel The Yearling, which depicts a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn. Rawlings lived in rural Florida and wrote novels and stories with regional themes, capturing the spirit and people of the area.