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The Yearling is a novel by American writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, published in March 1938. [1] It was the main selection of the Book of the Month Club in April 1938. It won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1938, when it sold more than 250,000 copies.
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.
The Yearling is a 1946 American Family Western film directed by Clarence Brown, produced by Sidney Franklin, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). The screenplay by Paul Osborn and John Lee Mahin (uncredited) was adapted from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 's 1938 novel of the same name .
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She won the Pulitzer in 1939 for The Yearling. [2] [3] Rawlings' book Cross Creek was published in 1942. The New York Times called it "an autobiographical regional study". [4] Reviews were strong and the book became a best seller, selling more than 500,000 copies. [5] A companion book Cross Creek Cookery came out the same year. [6]
Books published that year earned their authors a £200 advance payment along with 5% in royalty payments. Nearly 20,000 students in 1992 purchased the Macbeth study aid from York Notes. [1] York Notes are an imprint of Librairie du Liban, a company based in Beirut. In the United Kingdom, Longman publishes the York Notes. [1]
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Yearling may refer to: Yearling (horse), a horse between one and two years old; The Yearling, a 1938 novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; The Yearling, 1946 film based on the novel; The Yearling, TV movie that aired on CBS