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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.
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 ...
The character based on Jody was a girl in real life and turned into a boy for The Yearling. The filmmakers were going to keep Jody a boy for the film until they saw Dana Hill in Shoot the Moon and changed it to a girl. [14] Radnitz suggested Rip Torn, with whom he had worked on Birch Interval, as the backwoods hunter, Marsh Turner. When Alfre ...
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 .
Hogget, hogg or hog – a young sheep of either sex from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts two permanent teeth); a yearling sheep, as yet unshorn. [6] [7] Also the meat of a hogget. Also teg, old-season lamb, shearling. Hoof-shears – implement similar to secateurs, used to trim the hoofs of sheep.
Wally Lamb (born October 17, 1950) [1] is an American author known as the writer of the novels She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, both of which were selected for Oprah's Book Club. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy in Norwich from 1989 to 1998 [ 5 ] and has taught Creative Writing ...
Elizabeth Lamb is the name of: Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne (1750–1818), political hostess, wife of Peniston Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne Elizabeth Lamb (athlete) (born 1991), New Zealand high jumper