Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American author 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 and was later made into a movie. It was also selected for the Book-of-the-Month Club.
The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.

With illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.