This collection of early work, college writing, newspaper pieces, and stories of life in Florida by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is an intimate glimpse into the artistic development of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
Rodger L. Tarr is university distinguished professor, emeritus, at Illinois State University. He is the editor of Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and The Private Marjorie: The Love Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to Norton S. Baskin.Brent E. Kinser is assistant professor of English at Western Carolina University. With Tarr, he is coeditor of Marge and Julia: The Correspondence between Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Julia Scribner Bigham and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s Cross Creek Sampler: A Book of Quotations.