Research Guides: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan: Books

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Invasion of privacy : the Cross Creek trial of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Patricia N. Acton
Call Number: KF228.C34 A27 1988 Florida
ISBN: 0813009065
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
The vivid description of her friend Zelma Cason in Rawlings' 1942 autobiographical work Cross Creek so enraged Cason that she instituted a suit against the author seeking $100,000 in damages for violating her right to privacy, a cause of action that had yet to be recognized in the state of Florida.
Idella by Idella Parker; Mary Keating
Call Number: PS3535.A845 Z84 1992 Florida
ISBN: 0813011442
Publication Date: 1992-09-20
"Idella Parker's recollections of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings are as intimate and frank as their ten years together. This long-awaited memoir, by the black woman who was cook, housekeeper, and comfort to the famous author from 1940 to 1950, tells two stories--one of their spirited friendship, the other of race relations in rural Florida in the days before integration."
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Florida Crackers by Sandra Sammons
Call Number: PS3535.A845 Z844 2010 Florida
ISBN: 9781561644735
Publication Date: 2010-06-01
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings grew up loving to write and hoping to become an author. Later she moved to Florida, where she lived out in the country at Cross Creek in an area called the Big Scrub. She met the people who lived there, the so-called Crackers. Their simple way of life fascinated her, so she wrote stories about them. One of her books, called The Yearling, was about a boy and a pet deer. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her dream of becoming a famous writer had come true.
Crossing the Creek by Anna Lillios
Call Number: PS3515.U789Z764 2010 Florida
ISBN: 9780813035000
Publication Date: 2010-09-26
"Using interviews with individuals who knew both women, as well as incisive readings of surviving letters, Lillios examines these questions and many others in this remarkable book."

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