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  1. 3 days ago · In 1942, a woman named Zelma Cason sued iconic Florida writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings over how Marjorie portrayed her, using her real first name, in the ostensibly “non-fiction” book Cross Creek. Zelma alleged libel and invasion of privacy. My great aunt Kate Walton and great grandfather Judge Vertrees (J.V.) Walton represented Zelma.

  2. Jun 20, 2024 · The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park outside of Gainesville, Florida, preserves her legacy as a writer while simultaneously reintroducing visitors to an independent and complex woman. Born in 1896 to an upper-middle-class Washington, D.C., family, Rawlings discovered her love of writing at a young age.

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  3. Jun 21, 2024 · Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings — ‘Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.’.

  4. Jun 19, 2024 · Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings — ‘I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.’

  5. Jun 13, 2024 · Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings While I have never read her books (including "The Yearling"), I have always respected what a strong woman she must have been to come to rugged Florida 100 years ago. This is part of the property that she owned, which is now a State Park.

  6. Jun 10, 2024 · Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings > Quotes > Quotable Quote. (?) “A mark was on him from the day's delight, so that all his life, when April was a thin green and the flavor of rain was on his tongue, an old wound would throb and a nostalgia would fill him for something he could not quite remember.” ― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling.

  7. 2 days ago · The Ocala woods were home to Florida Crackers, immortalized in the Majorie Kinnan Rawlings books, including her Pulitzer Prize winner, “The Yearling.” (Some scenes in the movie starring Gregory Peck were filmed at Silver Springs.)