Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ( born August 8, 1896 in Washington DC, † December 14, 1953 in St. Augustine, Florida ) was an American author and Pulitzer Prize winner.

Life

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings grew up in Washington, D.C. on. Her parents were Frank Kinnan, a lawyer of the U.S. Patent Office, and Ida Kinnan.

Kinnan Rawlings was interested in already as a girl for writing and wrote the children's pages of regional newspapers, short stories. At 15, she won a prize from the McCall's Magazine's for her short story The Reincarnation of Miss Hetty. 1913, when she was 17, her father died, she was very close. Your family - consisting of her mother, her two brothers and her - then moved to Madison (Wisconsin ). There she attended the local university after high school. The University she left in 1918 with a Bachelor of Arts. Then moved to New York City, where she was working as a journalist. They met the writer Charles Rawlings know, the couple married 1919. Spouses first subjected to Louisville (Kentucky), later to Rochester (New York). In Rochester Kinnan Rawlings tried in vain to get a publisher for her novels. 1928 returned Kinnan Rawlings of the press and the big city behind. She and her husband bought an orange farm near Cross Creek, Florida. In the first years of their marriage, however, she realized that her husband was not emancipated, insightful "new man " was, as she thought. Beginning of the 1930s, her husband wanted to have more of a dutiful (house ) wife, who looked after the interests of her husband than to their own ambitions. Charles Rawling could furthermore not come to terms with her success as a writer, since he " merely" a sailing journalist was. Five years later, in 1933, the marriage had failed. The couple divorced. Charles Rawling Arthur Miller served as a model for the character of Willy Loman in his play Death of a Salesman.

In Florida, the author finally found a publisher. Her first successful novel South Moon Under was published in 1933. The big breakthrough came with her ​​novel The Yearling ( German Spring of Life), which was published in 1938. Kinnan Rawlings 1942 published autobiographical novel Cross Creek ( German Cross Creek - I fight for my freedom ) was filmed in 1983 by Martin Ritt with Mary Steenburgen in the lead role.

At the age of 57 years Kinnan Rawlings died in 1953 of cerebral hemorrhage.