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CROSS CREEK
Marjorie Rawlings
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CROSS CREEK

by Marjorie Rawlings · Scribner

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896 - 1953) was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same title, The Yearling. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.