Which American writer, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings or William H. Gass, was born first?
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) 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 of the same name. The book was written long before the concept of young adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.
Marjorie Hillis Marjorie Hillis (1889–1971) was an American author of popular nonfiction books for women in the 1930s.