The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Author of the Yearling

by Ann McCutchan

Book Overview

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 his pet fawn--much less one that has become synonymous with Florida literature writ large.

Rawlings was a tough, ambitious, and independent woman who refused the conventions of her early-twentieth-century upbringing. Determined to forge a literary career beyond those limitations, she...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393353494
• ISBN13: 9780393353495
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.4"