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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 28, 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...SOJOURNER (327 pp.)-Mor/or/e Kinnan Rowlings-Scrlbner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ase's Agonies | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ase's Agonies | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Midwife | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...several of these comments suggest, many of these TiME-readers' recipes have not appeared in print before. Others have been contributed by TiME-reading women known for cookbooks of their own: Mrs. Irma Rombauer, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Frances Parkinson Keyes. As you may have guessed, The TIME Reader's Book of Recipes is not a standard cookbook but a collection of favorite recipes that are different from those you would find in such a book. It is entirely the work of TIME'S women readers, not TIME'S editors, and we have had a fine time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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