Insisted that her middle name, Kinnan, was a "good Scottish name" that
should be accented on the last syllable. She gave up after years of
correcting others' mispronunciations, and today it is invariably
pronounced KINnan!
Buried in Antioch Cemetery in Island Grove, near Ocala, Florida.
Pictured on a 41¢ USA commemorative postage stamp in the Literary Arts series, issued 21 February 2008.
Graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1918.
Wrote the newspaper column "Songs Of A Housewife" in verse for a Gannett newspaper.
Elizabeth Silverthorne published her biography on Rawlings, "Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Sojourner At Cross Creek" in 1988.
Wrote her first novel "South Moon Under" in 1932.
Ann McCuthan published her biography on Rawlings, "The Life She Wished To Live: A Biography Of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings" in 2021 (W.W. Norton).
Her father worked in the US Patent Office.
During World War I she did public relations for the Y.W.C.A.'s War Work Council.