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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     McCutchan, Ann, author.     Subjects     Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953.     Women authors, American -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      McCutchan, Ann, author.       by title:      The life she wished ...         MARC Display

The life she wished to live : a biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The yearling / Ann McCutchan. by McCutchan, Ann, author. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021] Subjects Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 1896-1953.   Women authors, American -- Biography. ISBN:  9780393353495 (hardcover) : 0393353494 (hardcover) : Description:  xxii, 418 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First Edition. Contents:  Origins -- The perfect daughter -- Wisconsin -- New York -- Louisville -- Rochester -- The creek -- South moon under -- Coming apart -- Golden apples -- What about a novel about a boy -- The widening circle -- The yearling -- Pulitzer -- When the whippoorwill -- Today's woman -- Good women, marriage, and a memoir -- Wartime, Zora -- Lawsuit -- What is home? -- On trial -- "I have never felt more inadequate" -- A new outpost -- The cosmic novel -- Ferment -- Losses -- "Down" -- Legacy. Requests:  0 Summary:  "A comprehensive and engaging biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the beloved classic The Yearling. Washington, DC, born and Wisconsin educated, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an unlikely author of a coming-of-age novel about a poor central Florida child and his pet fawn-much less one that has become synonymous with Florida literature writ large. Rawlings was a tough, ambitious, and independent woman who refused the conventions of her early-twentieth-century upbringing. Determined to forge a literary career beyond those limitations, she found her voice in the remote, hardscrabble life of Cross Creek, Florida. There, Rawlings purchased a commercial orange grove and discovered a fascinating world out of which to write-and a dialect of the poor, swampland community that the literary world had yet to hear. She employed her sensitive eye, sharp ear for dialogue, and philosophical spirit to bring to life this unknown corner of America in vivid, tender detail, a feat that earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. Her accomplishments came at a price: a failed first marriage, financial instability, a contentious libel suit, alcoholism, and physical and emotional upheaval. With intimate access to Rawlings's correspondence and revealing early writings, Ann McCutchan uncovers a larger-than-life woman who writes passionately and with verve, whose emotions change on a dime, and who drinks to excess, smokes, swears, and even occasionally joins in on an alligator hunt. The Life She Wished to Live paints a lively portrait of Rawlings, her contemporaries-including her legendary editor, Maxwell Perkins, and friends Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald-and the Florida landscape and people that inspired her"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 813.52 Rawlings Mc Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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