Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Crackers

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings grew up loving to write and hoping to become an author. Later she moved to Florida, where she lived out in the country at Cross Creek in an area called the Big Scrub. She met the people who lived there, the so-called Crackers. Their simple way of life fascinated her, so she wrote stories about them. One of her books, called The Yearling, was about a boy and a pet deer. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her dream of becoming a famous writer had come true.

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Crackers

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings grew up loving to write and hoping to become an author. Later she moved to Florida, where she lived out in the country at Cross Creek in an area called the Big Scrub. She met the people who lived there, the so-called Crackers. Their simple way of life fascinated her, so she wrote stories about them. One of her books, called The Yearling, was about a boy and a pet deer. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her dream of becoming a famous writer had come true.

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Crackers

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Crackers

by Sandra Wallus Sammons
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings grew up loving to write and hoping to become an author. Later she moved to Florida, where she lived out in the country at Cross Creek in an area called the Big Scrub. She met the people who lived there, the so-called Crackers. Their simple way of life fascinated her, so she wrote stories about them. One of her books, called The Yearling, was about a boy and a pet deer. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her dream of becoming a famous writer had come true.

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781561648726
Publisher: Pineapple Press, Inc.
Publication date: 06/01/2010
Series: Pineapple Press Biography
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 72
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Sandra Wallus Sammons was for many years a Florida elementary school librarian in Lake County. Learning of the dearth of books on Florida history aimed at fourth graders, she began writing biographies of Floridians who lived fascinating, inspirational lives. She has written all the books in the Pineapple Young Reader Biographies series: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Florida Everglades; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Crackers; The Two Henrys: Henry Plant and Henry Flagler and Their Railroad; Henry Flagler, Builder of Florida; Ponce de Leon and the Discovery of Florida; Zora Neale Hurston: Wrapped in Rainbows; and John and William Bartram: Travelers in Early America.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

The Young Writer 1

The Crackers 7

A New Excitement 12

The Right Subject 18

The Words Start Flowing 24

The Yearling 29

The Famous Author 34

Problems at the Creek 41

Remembering 45

Afterword 49

To See and Do 51

Glossary 52

Selected Bibliography 54

References 55

Acknowledgments 57

Index 59

About the Author 61

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