Natural Writer: A Story about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

by Judy Cook and Laura Lee Smith

Book Overview

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings dreamt of becoming a famous writer from the time that she was a young girl. After several years of searching for adventure and success, Marjorie finally found inspiration in the wild country of central Florida. While living there, she produced several popular works of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize - winning novel the Yearling.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157505468X
• ISBN13: 9781575054681
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

Inspiring Reading for Creative Youngsters

Creative youngsters of a somewhat higher age-range than the one recommended, about 8-15 years really, will find themselves inspired by the account of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' early struggle to find her forte as a writer, in this latest of the Creative Minds Biography series. Sprinkled with finely detailed, full-page charcoal drawings, it also draws an engaging parallel between the young Marjorie's life on a family farm and Jody Baxter's in "The Yearling." Marjorie's father Arthur Kinnan nurtured her love of nature just as Penny Baxter did for Jody, which gives us a fascinating insight into the true-life sources for Kinnan Rawlings' famous creations. The highs and lows of her life and career in rural Florida are then undramatically yet sensitively described: the book's tone is quiet and true, as clear and sweet as a brook in Rawlings' fiction.