Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes


It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.


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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. Cross Creek. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942.

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • Born: August 8, 1896
  • Died: December 14, 1953
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Biographers have noted her longing for a male child through her writings, as far back as her first story as a teenage girl in "The Reincarnation of Miss Hetty", and repeated throughout several works, letters, and characters, most notably in The Yearling. In fact, she stated that as a child she had a gift for telling stories, but that she demanded all her audiences be boys.