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Florida stars in new Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings biography
Ann McCutchanâs life of the author of âThe Yearlingâ and âCross Creekâ makes rich use of correspondence to put her works in context.
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At her home in Cross Creek, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and one of her hunting dogs strike a pose. [ Tampa Tribune ]
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings had two long marriages and a number of romances, but her most enduring love affair was with a place, not a person.
That passion became the source for her best-known books,
The Yearling and
Itâs also at the center of
The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Author of The Yearling, by Ann McCutchan. With access to the vast collection of Rawlingsâ letters, manuscripts and more from her papers held by the University of Florida, McCutchan, who grew up in Florida and is the founding director of the University of Wyomingâs MFA in creative writing program, has
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A house connected to author Connie May Fowler has been approved for demolition after a vote by members of St. Augustine s Historic Architectural Review Board.
Historian David Nolan, who has done extensive research on area properties, wrote a letter to HARB urging them to save 29 Masters Drive for its historical value. But the board decided its history wasn t significant enough to deny the application for demolition.
Fowler is one of a number of notable authors with ties to St. Johns County, including Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Fowler wrote River of Hidden Dreams and other books as well as poems and essays.
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