PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
WOMAN WRITER’S SI (L ESS The winner of the Pulitzer Prize land writer of several populai novels, ! Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, has been | writing and selling her stories since ! she was 11 years old. Her father, a ’ Washington patent attorney, encour- ■ aged her talent by duplicating every ! dollar she earned. At 14 she won a j 75-dollar prize and is now the proud |M)ssessor of Ihe coveted Pulitzer Prize. Mrs. Rawlings attended the University of Wisconsin, wnere she received an A.B. degree in 1918. In 1928 Mrs. Rawlings deliberately cut all ties, however, and migrated to Florida * where she lives alone in a rambling I farm-house in her own orange grove, where she claims to have found both peace and isolation.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 254, 27 October 1939, Page 10
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