Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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"Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings" was an American literature/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 the Novel/Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same title, The Yearling (film)/The Yearling. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.

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I do not know how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.