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Cross Creek is well known as the home of the American author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.She wrote four of her books while actually living there, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Yearling, which was adapted as the 1946 film of the same name, and her memoir, Cross Creek, which was adapted as the 1983 film.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park is located on the eastern shore of Orange Lake, a short way south of the village of Cross Creek. The park is about 8 acres (3.2 ha) in size, but is adjacent to public lands totalling about 115 acres (47 ha) historically part of the Rawlings property.
Cross Creek. Cross Creek is a natural waterway in Florida connecting Lochloosa Lake to Orange Lake, in southeastern Alachua County.It is 1.0 mile (1.6 km) long, and carries the outflow from Lochloosa Lake into Orange Lake.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) [1] 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 [2] and was later made into a movie of the same name.
A children's reading area inside the newly built Family Resource Center at Cross Creek, the first of its kind in Leon County Thursday, August 22 2024.
In 1928 Rawlings gave up a ten-year career in journalism to move to Cross Creek and write novels. She won the Pulitzer in 1939 for The Yearling. [2] [3]Rawlings' book Cross Creek was published in 1942.
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Cross Creek (Florida), a waterway connecting Orange Lake and Lochloosa Lake in southeastern Alachua County Cross Creek, Florida, a community centered on the Cross Creek waterway