The Life She Wished to Live

A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling

The Life She Wished to Live
Ann McCutchan
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h210 x 140mm - 464pg
8 Jul 2022 US
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9781324022008
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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 Floridian literature writ large. Rawlings was a tough, passionate, and independent woman who refused the early-twentieth-century conventions of her upbringing. Determined to exist outside her comfort zone, she found her voice in the remote hardscrabble life of Cross Creek, Florida. Between hunting alligator and managing an orange grove, Rawlings employed her sensitive eye, sharp ear for dialogue, and philosophical spirit to bring to life an unknown corner of America in vivid, tender detail? a feat that earned her the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. 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 and Ernest Hemingway? and the Florida landscape and people that inspired her.
"It' s been a quarter of a century since we' ve had a new biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Ann McCutchan delivers. From Rawlings' s early newspaper days to the triumph of The Yearling, McCutchan shows us a writer of complexity, ambition, and conviction. A deeply researched and satisfying read. " -- Martha Ackmann, author of These Fevered Days "An affectionate biography of the beloved author. . . Work by work, McCutchan carefully details Rawlings' s gradual development as a professional writer who keenly absorbed [Cross Creek, Florida' s] history, culture, and dialects. . . An all-inclusive and intimate assessment that could help Rawlings attract a new generation of readers. " -- Kirkus Reviews
Ann McCutchan is the author of six works of biography and memoir, including Marcel Moyse: Voice of the Flute and Where' s the Moon? : A Memoir of the Space Coast and the Florida Dream. ? The founding director of the University of Wyoming' s MFA in creative writing program and former editor of American Literary Review, McCutchan grew up in Florida and now lives in Wyoming.
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ISBN-13: 9781324022008
Published: 8 Jul 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 464

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