MSS6785Rawlings, Marjorie, KinnanMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings MSS 6785Ellen WelchAlbert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

2026-04-14

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110University of VirginiaCharlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110URL:

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-04-17 11:01:32 +0000.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings papers MSS 6785 Archival Resource Key /repositories/3/resources/1893 0.04 Cubic Feet 1 folder 1938-1942 English Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings letters and newspaper clippings-Addition (MSS 6785-d)6785Archival Resource Key/repositories/3/archival_objects/2936300.04 Cubic Feet1 legal size folderletters and newspaper articles1938-1942English1Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was a gift from Julie Forbush to the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 5 February, 1985.

Biographical / Historical

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) was an American writer 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 of the same name.

Preferred Citation

MSS6785-d addition, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings letters and newspaper articles, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.

Scope and Contents

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings reply to requests for inscriptions on her books. Newspaper articles about Marjorie Rawlings and her books and short stories, "The Yearling", "The Moon Is Down", and "When The Whipporwill"

Women authors, White