Educated at the university of Wisconsin, Kinnan received a degree in English in 1918. She married Charles Rawlings and both of them worked as journalists for various New York newspapers. In 1928, they moved to Cross Creek, Florida. The remote Florida wilderness inspired Rawlings and would serve as a backdrop for much of her writing. Her first book, South Moon Under, was published in 1933 and that year she also divorced Rawlings. In 1935, she published Golden Apples, which didn't achieve much success, but in 1938 she produced her masterpiece, The Yearling. A phenomenal best-seller, The Yearling won her the Pulitzer Prize, was made into a successful movie of the same name, and gave her a substantial income. She moved to Crescent Beach, south of St. Augustine and in 1941, married hotelier Norton Baskin. Rawlings became close friends with many writers of her era including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott-Fitzgerald and Margaret Mitchell. She was a keen environmentalist and a staunch supporter of civil rights. Rawlings died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1953. Her property was bequeathed to the University of Florida. Her other works include When the Whipporwill (1940), Cross Creek (1942), Cross Creek Cookery (1942), The Sojourner (1953) and The Secret River (1956 posthumous).
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