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Mar 15, 2013 - Marjorie Rawlins House & Historic Micanopy

We visited the home of Marjorie Rawlins, author of "The Yearling" and the Historic Town of Micanopy. We sampled kumquats and oranges from the trees on the Rawlins property and stopped in the Micanopy bakery for pastry and coffee before visiting the Museum and local shops.

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Jan 17, 2009 - FL, Cross Creek

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953)[1] was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie, also known as The Yearling. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists. Marjorie Kinnan was born in 1896 in Washington, DC, to Frank, an attorney for the...

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