Although Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings became famous for her writings about Florida, she was not a native Floridian. She was born on August 8, 1896, in Washington D.C. and lived there until she went the University of Wisconsin to major in English. After graduating in 1918, she married Charles Rawlings. In early 1928 the Rawlings moved to Cross Creek, Florida, where she wrote the novel, The Yearling, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939. She divorced Mr. Rawlings in 1933, and remarried in 1941 to a St. Augustine business man, Norton Baskin.In 1942, Rawlings published Cross Creek, an account based on her life in Cross Creek. Reaction to the book was both positive and negative. People enjoyed reading about living the simple life. Her writings about food became so popular, Rawlings later published Cross Creek Cookery. However, one Cross Creek neighbor, Zelma Cason, became so angry when she read what was written about her that she sued Rawlings for for invasion of privacy in the amount of $100,000. After a five-and-a-half year trial, the Florida State Supreme Court ruled that Rawlings would have to pay Zelma $1.00 plus court costs.
Unfortunately, Rawlings did not long live afterwards; she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died on December 14, 1953.
For more information :
http://www.cah.ucf.edu/crosscreek/rawling1.php
http://www.floridastateparks.org/marjoriekinnanrawlings/
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/Rawling/Rawtitle.htm
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/rawlings/intro.html
http://www.travellady.com/Issues/Issue65/65G-crosscreek.htm
http://www.literarytraveler.com/authors/marjorie_kinnan_rawlings.aspx
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