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...Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' collected short stories have good claim to being a better book than her big bestseller, The Yearling. When the Whippoorwill contains eleven stories, including a novelette (Jacob's Ladder) which first put Florida's "scrub" back country on the map and Author Rawlings among the ranks of the South's best regional writers...
WHEN THE WHIPPOORWILL-Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings-Scrlbner...
...First, it is published by a university press; second, its title makes it sound like a book on botany. But Purslane is worth a top place on any publisher's list. The first novel of a North Carolina folk-play writer, Purslane will remind most readers of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' South Moon Under. Unsentimental, authentic, humorous, moving, it tells a tale of a North Carolina hill family at the turn of the century...
...best-selling novel, The Yearling, plump Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings was awarded this year's Pulitzer Prize. Other winners: Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (his second), for Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Biographer Carl Van Doren, for Benjamin Franklin; Scripps-Howard Correspondent Thomas L Stokes, for exposing WPA in Kentucky politics...
...YEARLING - Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings-Scribner...