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.
Grace Duffie Boylan Grace Duffie Boylan (February 9, 1861 - March 24, 1935) was an American writer. She wrote many children’s books, often dealing with diverse races and cultures, like "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (not to be confounded with the same title by Harriet Beecher Stowe). Other titles include: "Young Folks", "Our Little Eskimo Kiddies: Kids of Many Colors", "Yama Yama Land", and "Our Little Cuban Kiddies".