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Author McCutchan, Ann, author.

Title The life she wished to live : a biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The yearling / Ann McCutchan.

Publisher New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]

ISBN 9780393353495 (hardcover)
0393353494 (hardcover)



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Edition First edition.
Description xxii, 418 pages : illustrations, plates, photographs ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Origins -- The perfect daughter -- Wisconsin -- New York -- Louisville -- Rochester -- The creek -- South moon under -- Coming apart -- Golden apples -- What about a novel about a boy -- The widening circle -- The yearling -- Pulitzer -- When the whippoorwill -- Today's woman -- Good women, marriage, and a memoir -- Wartime, Zora -- Lawsuit -- What is home? -- On trial -- "I have never felt more inadequate" -- A new outpost -- The cosmic novel -- Ferment -- Losses -- "Down" -- Legacy.
Summary "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 found her voice in the remote, hardscrabble life of Cross Creek, Florida. There, Rawlings purchased a commercial orange grove and discovered a fascinating world out of which to write-and a dialect of the poor, swampland community that the literary world had yet to hear. She employed her sensitive eye, sharp ear for dialogue, and philosophical spirit to bring to life this unknown corner of America in vivid, tender detail, a feat that earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. Her accomplishments came at a price: a failed first marriage, financial instability, a contentious libel suit, alcoholism, and physical and emotional upheaval. With intimate access to Rawlings's correspondence and revealing early writings, Ann McCutchan uncovers a larger-than-life woman who writes passionately and with verve, whose emotions change on a dime, and who drinks to excess, smokes, swears, and even occasionally joins in on an alligator hunt."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953.
Subject(S) Women authors, American -- Biography.
Biographies.
ISBN 9780393353495 (hardcover)
0393353494 (hardcover)