Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

(LoC) - Journalist, short-story writer, and novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was born on August 8, 1896, in Washington, D.C. Rawlings is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Yearling (1938), the story of young Jody Baxter's coming of age in the big scrub country which is now the Ocala National Forest in Florida. Continued

Photo: Florida, sunset on the Ocklawaha [i.e. Oklawaha], Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942, photographer.