Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS, AUTHOR OF THE AMERICAN LITERARY CLASSIC THE YEARLING, FOR WHICH SHE WON THE PULITZER PRIZE, MOVED TO A RURAL FARMHOUSE AT CROSS CREEK, FLORIDA, IN 1928 AND LIVED THERE FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE. THE CRACKER-STYLE ...

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park

Many African Americans in rural Florida lived in small tenant houses like the one standing in the orange grove at the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park.

Visitors to this Florida homestead can walk back in time to 1930s farm ...

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Historical Site

Florida Women's Heritage Trail

Cross Creek, the home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953), is where the world-famous author wrote her most popular books, "The Yearling" and "Cross Creek." Rawlings came to Cross Creek when she was 32 and drew the inspiration ...