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This extraordinary trove of letters offers the most intimate portrait available of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist best known as the author of The Yearling, Cross Creek, and South Moon Under. Rawlings was one of Scribner's best-selling novelists of the 1940s and a protégée of their famous editor Maxwell E. Perkins.

The letters, written to her second husband Norton S. Baskin from 1938 to her death in 1953, present a sharply drawn picture of the nation as it struggled through the end of the Depression, World War II, and the beginning of the Cold War era and of her intriguing life that ranged from the Florida scrub to the New York literary scene. Above all, they reveal the temperamental writer at her most human--candid, bawdy, lonely, insecure, generous, and always fortified by her love for Baskin.

Their relationship was deep and abiding but not without upheaveal, pain, and complications. They lived apart as much as they lived together, and during the writing of these letters Rawlings was an international celebrity. Baskin shared Marjorie with the world and she shared with him her views on life as a writer and as a woman in a man's world. For nearly 18 months during his wartime service, she wrote him a letter every day--an epistolary diary of her personal and professional tragedies and triumphs.

The letters are especially lively when Rawlings chronicles her life at Cross Creek, her home in remote north-central Florida. Her language in these letters reveals her tough, enigmatic personality. She was sometimes unkind, particularly when it came to comments about her black workers, whom she championed in the abstract but often cursed in person. She dealt in the same way with her cracker neighbors, whom she treated with uncommon charity at times and with contempt at others. The letters also describe friendships with Perkins and with her publisher, Charles Scribner III, and his daughter Julia, her unofficial goddaughter and later her literary executor; with socialites who visited St. Augustine, Florida, where Baskin owned a posh hotel; with the rich and famous Owen D. Youngs of Van Hornesville, New York; and with writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, Margaret Mitchell, and Zora Neale Hurston. One of the latter, her friend and fellow novelist James Branch Cabell, convinced Rawlings to write a biography of writer Ellen Glasgow, a contemporary best-selling writer and a friend of both. Although Rawlings died before she could complete it, these letters reveal the sensational secrets divulged to her by Glasgow's Richmond intimates.

Near the end of Rawlings's life, when she was worn out by illness, alcohol, and depression, Baskin remained her champion, always listening to her complaints and indulging her whims. In this unvarnished narrative we come to know, as he did, an American writer who was a complex personality, as hard on herself as she was on those she loved.

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22. Marjorie Rawlings Reader by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
	Hardcover: 504 Pages (1989-01) list price: US$19.95 -- used & new: US$15.49 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0935259058 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

24. The Private Marjorie: The Love Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to Norton S. Baskin by RODGER L. TARR
	Hardcover: 720 Pages (2004-12-31) list price: US$39.95 -- used & new: US$39.90 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0813027837 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description This extraordinary trove of letters offers the most intimate portrait available of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist best known as the author of The Yearling, Cross Creek, and South Moon Under. Rawlings was one of Scribner's best-selling novelists of the 1940s and a protégée of their famous editor Maxwell E. Perkins. The letters, written to her second husband Norton S. Baskin from 1938 to her death in 1953, present a sharply drawn picture of the nation as it struggled through the end of the Depression, World War II, and the beginning of the Cold War era and of her intriguing life that ranged from the Florida scrub to the New York literary scene. Above all, they reveal the temperamental writer at her most human--candid, bawdy, lonely, insecure, generous, and always fortified by her love for Baskin. Their relationship was deep and abiding but not without upheaveal, pain, and complications. They lived apart as much as they lived together, and during the writing of these letters Rawlings was an international celebrity. Baskin shared Marjorie with the world and she shared with him her views on life as a writer and as a woman in a man's world. For nearly 18 months during his wartime service, she wrote him a letter every day--an epistolary diary of her personal and professional tragedies and triumphs. The letters are especially lively when Rawlings chronicles her life at Cross Creek, her home in remote north-central Florida. Her language in these letters reveals her tough, enigmatic personality. She was sometimes unkind, particularly when it came to comments about her black workers, whom she championed in the abstract but often cursed in person. She dealt in the same way with her cracker neighbors, whom she treated with uncommon charity at times and with contempt at others. The letters also describe friendships with Perkins and with her publisher, Charles Scribner III, and his daughter Julia, her unofficial goddaughter and later her literary executor; with socialites who visited St. Augustine, Florida, where Baskin owned a posh hotel; with the rich and famous Owen D. Youngs of Van Hornesville, New York; and with writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, Margaret Mitchell, and Zora Neale Hurston. One of the latter, her friend and fellow novelist James Branch Cabell, convinced Rawlings to write a biography of writer Ellen Glasgow, a contemporary best-selling writer and a friend of both. Although Rawlings died before she could complete it, these letters reveal the sensational secrets divulged to her by Glasgow's Richmond intimates. Near the end of Rawlings's life, when she was worn out by illness, alcohol, and depression, Baskin remained her champion, always listening to her complaints and indulging her whims. In this unvarnished narrative we come to know, as he did, an American writer who was a complex personality, as hard on herself as she was on those she loved. ... Read more

25. Selected Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Gordon E. Bigelow, Laura V. Monti
	Paperback: 424 Pages (1988-06) list price: US$24.95 -- used & new: US$18.41 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0813008999 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description This collection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's correspondence includes her observations on contemporaries such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Wolfe, and provides an introduction to her life, as well as informative annotations, chronology, and index. ... Read more

27. The Yearling (Classic Mammoth) by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
	Paperback: 200 Pages (1992-05-07) list price: US$10.35 -- used & new: US$5.36 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0749701838 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description Jody grows up in the backwoods of Florida in the early 1900s, where school is the forest, land and river, and lessons are in farming, fishing and hunting. His discovery of a fawn opens up a new world of companionship and friendship. ... Read more

29. Cross Creek. Illus. by Edward Shenton. by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
	Paperback: Pages (1996) Asin: B003WMF1RK Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

30. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
	Paperback: 334 Pages (1976) Isbn: 0330247611 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

31. Jody et le Faon by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
	Paperback: Pages (1946) Asin: B00103L4QA Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

32. Autograph Letter Signed by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
	Unknown Binding: Pages (1942) Asin: B00412F7II Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

33. Frontier Eden The Literary Career of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Bigelow Gordon E.
	Hardcover: 162 Pages (1966-01-01) -- used & new: US$144.03 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: B000UDNDL0 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

34. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: A Descriptive Bibliography (Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography) by Rodger L. Tarr
	Hardcover: 283 Pages (1996-06) list price: US$100.00 -- used & new: US$25.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0822939207 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

35. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Twayne's United States Authors Series, Tusas 241) by Samuel Irving Bellman
	Hardcover: 164 Pages (1974-10) list price: US$11.95 Isbn: 0805706100 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

36. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Southern Pioneer) by Sandra Wallus Sammons, Nina McGuire
	Paperback: 72 Pages (1995-10) list price: US$14.95 -- used & new: US$2.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0963124153 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

37. Elements of Literature; Elements of the Novel: A Study Guide to The Yearling By Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Editors
	Paperback: Pages (1989-01-01) Asin: B000TMM3BI Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

38. The Yearling: With Connections by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
	Hardcover: 444 Pages (1998-06) list price: US$18.93 -- used & new: US$2.28 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0030547784 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

39. Poems by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Songs of a Housewife
	Hardcover: 288 Pages (1997-06-15) list price: US$24.95 -- used & new: US$14.89 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0813014913 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Amazon.com Review This charming collection of poems that Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling,Cross Creek) wrote in the 1920s were so popular that they appearedone-a-day in a New York newspaper for two full years. Organized by task,the poems graphically depict the life of a housewife (mending, baking,dusting, and the joy of a sunny window) with wisdom and humor. In the daysbefore convenience stores and microwaves, Rawlings reminds us of the horrorof having company show up with nothing fixed to feed them. Or in a moretimeless vein, the disdain a harried mother feels for the neighbor who hasall her Christmas shopping done and wrapped early. Songs of a Housewife is one of a kind. ... Read more

40. Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Vol. I, 1966: Outpost of Freedom; The Double Image: The Yearling: The Century of the Detective; The Way of the Eagle; So This is What Happened to Charlie Moe by Captain Roger H. C.; MacInnes, Helen; Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan; Thorwal Donlon
	Hardcover: Pages (1966) Asin: B003N4P03W Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan