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Although Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling continued to hold top place, at month's end it was losing ground to Howard Spring's My Son, My Son!, seemed sure to be supplanted. Crowding both was Nordhoff & Hall's The Dark River, called by booksellers a "one-month" bestseller. Possibly Kenneth Roberts' Trending Into Maine should be considered in the same category. At any rate. success in Pittsburgh and Boston made Author Roberts the only U. S. author of the year to have two books on best-seller lists...
...Yearling-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings-Scribner...
...nonfiction, two to one. Last month Lin Yutang's philosophic miscellany of Chinese wisdom, The Importance of Living, was the only book that sold equally well in New York City and San Francisco, in Chicago and Dallas, Tex. And although its total sale fell slightly short of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' The Yearling, it was head and shoulders above rivals in its own field, and the only work of non-fiction in the past season to sell on the scale of best-selling novels...
...Yearling- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings-Scribner...
Although she was born in Washington, D. C., was educated at the University of Wisconsin, worked on newspapers in the North, blue-eyed, 42-year-old Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is pure Southerner in her literary career. Both her novels (South Moon Under, Golden Apples) and her short stories have dealt with the poor whites who live in the Florida scrub where she and her journalist husband went to live...