Word: kinnan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SECRET RIVER, by Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings (55 pp.; Scribner; $2.50). This little Florida fairy tale for children, the only finished work found among Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' papers after she died 18 months ago, tells about a little girl named Calpurnia. Once upon a bad old time, when nobody could catch any fish, Calpurnia turned hard times into soft times by finding a secret river crammed with succulent catfish. Evidently, Author Rawlings never published the story because she hoped some day to dream it up to novel-size. It is reminiscent of the same cracker-filled scrub forests...
Died. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 57, Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist of backwoods Florida (The Yearling, Golden Apples); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Augustine. Fla. For ten years, hopeful Author Rawlings worked on newspapers, potboiled syndicated verse, wrote (but seldom sold) short stories. In 1928 she settled in Florida's remote swamp country, three years later won a Scribner's novelette contest, turned out two popular novels before The Yearling (1938) won her fame and a fortune in royalties. In 1942 she accurately recorded the manners & morals of her adopted neighbors (Cross Creek), when death came was hard at work...
...SOJOURNER (327 pp.)-Mor/or/e Kinnan Rowlings-Scrlbner...
...Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings might well have called her latest novel "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." Her farmer hero, Ase Linden, is a rawboned, ungainly man of probity without a mean bone in his 6 ft. 4 in. body. Born in a log cabin in the 18605, Ase dies in the age of flight, but his sad saga never gets off the ground...
Perkins was ready to send his writers long letters with shrewd and specific suggestions for improving their manuscripts, but he realized that a main function was to prop their drooping egos while they worked. To Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings he wrote, "I can understand your feeling anxious, because a good writer always does, and ought to." Perkins became father confessor, literary adviser, financial agent and friend to his struggling writers. He negotiated with Tom Wolfe's dunning creditors while Wolfe was in Europe, he gentled Sherwood Anderson when Anderson was on his last literary legs, and he reassured a nervous...