Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (photographed by Carl van Vechten , 1953)
Orange farm in what is now Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (born August 8, 1896 in Washington, DC , † December 14, 1953 in St. Augustine , Florida ) was an American writer and Pulitzer Prize winner.

Life

Marjorie Kinnan grew up as the daughter of lawyer Frank Kinnan and his wife Ida in Washington DC. As a child, she wrote short stories in regional newspapers. At the age of 15 she won a McCall’s Magazine award for her short story The Reincarnation of Miss Hetty . Her father died in 1913 and the family moved to Madison, Wisconsin . There she attended university until 1918 and then moved to New York City , where she worked as a journalist.

In 1919 she married the writer Charles Rawlings and moved first to Louisville (Kentucky) , later to Rochester (New York) , where she tried in vain to find a publisher for her novels. In 1928, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and her husband bought an orange farm near Cross Creek, Florida. The marriage ended in divorce five years later. Charles Rawling served Arthur Miller as a model for the character of Willy Loman in his drama Death of a Salesman .

The author finally found an editor in Florida. Her first successful novel, South Moon Under , was published in 1933. Her big breakthrough came with her novel The Yearling (German Spring of Life ), which was published in 1938. Kinnan Rawlings 1942 published autobiographical novel Cross Creek (German Cross Creek - I'm fighting for my freedom ) was 1983 by Martin Ritt with Mary Steenburgen in the lead role filmed . Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings died of a stroke in 1953.

Awards

In 1939, Kinnan Rawlings received the Pulitzer Prize for Novels for The Yearling . In the same year she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Works

  • South Moon Under . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. German: Trail under the stars; Hamburg 1967.
  • Golden Apples . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. German: The golden oranges glow in the dark foliage; Munich 1975; ISBN 3-442-03377-2 ; also: New home Florida; Zurich 1940.
  • The Yearling . 1938. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. German: Spring of Life; ISBN 3-499-10153-X
  • When the Whippoorwill . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. German: Not available.
  • Cross Creek . 1942. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. German: Cross Creek: My planter experiences in Florida; Zurich 1944.
  • Cross Creek Cookery . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. German: Not available.
  • The Sojourner . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. German: The eternal guest; Hamburg 1956.
  • The Secret River . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955. (posthumously). English: Calipurna lets the sun shine again; Gütersloh 1965; also: the hidden river; Constance 1956.
  • Blood of my Blood . Ed. Anne Blythe Meriwether. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. German: Not available.

Short stories and poems

  • Cracker Chidlings (1931). Ed. Rodger L. Tarr. Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994.
  • Jacob's Ladder (1931). Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
  • Lord Bill of the Suwannee River (1931). Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • A Plumb Clare Conscience (1931). Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 124–30.
  • A Crop of Beans (1932) Scribner's Magazine 91 (1932): 283-90.
  • Gal Young Un (1932). Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
  • Alligators (1933). Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
  • Benny and the Bird Dogs (1933). Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
  • The pardon. Scribner's Magazine 96 (1934).
  • Having Left Cities Behind Me. Scribner's Magazine 98 (1935).
  • Varmints (1936). Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
  • A Mother in Manville (1936). Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
  • Cocks Must Crow (1939). Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
  • Fish Fry and Fireworks (1940). Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
  • The Pelican's Shadow (1940). Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
  • The Enemy (1940). Saturday Evening Post 212 (1940).
  • In the Heart (1940). Collier's 105 (1940).
  • Jessamine Springs (1941). New Yorker 17 (1941).
  • The Provider (1941). Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
  • The Shell (1944). New Yorker 20 (1944).
  • Black Secret (1945). New Yorker 21 (1945).
  • Miriam's Houses (1945). New Yorker 21 (1945).
  • Miss Moffatt Steps Out (1946). Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
  • The Friendship (1949). Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
  • Songs of a Houswife . Poems by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Edited by Rodger L. Tarr. University of Florida Press (1997); ISBN 0-8130-1491-3 .

Literature on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  • JT Glisson, The Creek . University Press of Florida, 1993; ISBN 978-0-8130-1185-1 .
  • Idella Parker, Idella: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' “Perfect Maid” . University Press of Florida, 1992, ISBN 978-0-8130-1143-1
  • Idella Parker, Bud Crussel, Liz Crussel, From Reddick to Cross Creek . University of Florida Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8130-1706-8
  • Patricia Nassif Acton, Invasion of Privacy. The Cross Creek Trial of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings . University of Florida Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0-8130-0906-3
  • Sandra Sammons, Nina McGuire, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Southern Pioneer) . Tailored Tours Publications 1995, ISBN 978-0-9631241-5-9
  • Judy Cook, Laura Lee Smith, Laurie Harden, Natural Writer: A Story About Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Creative Minds Biographies) . Carolrhoda Books 2001, ISBN 978-1-57505-468-1
  • Gordon E. Bigelow, Frontier Eden: The Literary Career of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings . University of Florida Press 1980, ISBN 978-0-8130-0672-7
  • Rodger L. Tarr, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: A Descriptive Bibliography . Oak Knoll Press 1996, ISBN 978-0-8229-3920-7
  • Carolyn M. Jones, Race and the rural in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's Cross Creek. (Biography): An article from: The Mississippi Quarterly [1] (Digital), March 22, 2004

Film adaptations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brenda Murphy, Susan CW Abbotson, Understanding Death of a Salesman: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents , The Greenwood Press 1999
  2. ↑ Members: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kinnan Rawlings, Marjorie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and Pulitzer Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1953
Place of death St. Augustine , Florida