The life she wished to live a biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The yearling

"A comprehensive and engaging biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the beloved classic The Yearling. Washington, DC, born and Wisconsin educated, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an unlikely author of a coming-of-age novel about a poor central Florida child and hi...

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Main Author: McCutchan, Ann (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Edition: First Edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Origins
  • The perfect daughter
  • Wisconsin
  • New York
  • Louisville
  • Rochester
  • The creek
  • South moon under
  • Coming apart
  • Golden apples
  • What about a novel about a boy
  • The widening circle
  • The yearling
  • Pulitzer
  • When the whippoorwill
  • Today's woman
  • Good women, marriage, and a memoir
  • Wartime, Zora
  • Lawsuit
  • What is home?
  • On trial
  • "I have never felt more inadequate"
  • A new outpost
  • The cosmic novel
  • Ferment
  • Losses
  • "Down"
  • Legacy.