This extraordinary trove of letters offers the most intimate portrait available of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist best known as the author of The Yearling , Cross Creek , and South Moon Under. Rawlings was one of Scribner's best-selling novelists of the 1940s and a protegee of their famous editor Maxwell E. Perkins. The letters, written to her second husband Norton S. Baskin from 1938 to her death in 1953, present a...