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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1896 - 1953

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American writer 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has received more than 652,106 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is the 6,000th most popular writer (down from 5,553rd in 2019), the 9,749th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,489th in 2019) and the 734th most popular American Writer.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ranks 6,000 out of 7,302. Before her are Alexander Afinogenov, Alex Garland, Gardner Fox, W. S. Merwin, Lucy Hawking, and Kristina Lugn. After her are Joel Lehtonen, Carol J. Adams, Jonathan Safran Foer, Harry Turtledove, Arthur Laurents, and Paulina Chiziane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ranks 246. Before her are Okuro Oikawa, Charles Pahud de Mortanges, Gopal Swarup Pathak, Alister Hardy, Liam O'Flaherty, and Lawrence Tibbett. After her are Natalie Talmadge, Ian Wolfe, Herb Drury, Manuel Rojas, J. Carrol Naish, and Adele Astaire. Among people deceased in 1953, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ranks 181. Before her are Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Annie Kenney, Fred M. Vinson, Paul Niggli, Luis Alberto Riart, and Henri Padé. After her are Thomas Thorstensen, James Scullin, Edward Sedgwick, Alex James, Josef Ternström, and Robert G. Vignola.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ranks 9,749 out of 20,380. Before her are Pete Wilson (1933), Georgia Coleman (1912), Christian Serratos (1990), Michael Landau (1958), Reginald Arvizu (1969), and Cobi Jones (1970). After her are Natalie Talmadge (1896), Leah Remini (1970), Jerome Biffle (1928), Nicholas Katzenbach (1922), Joe Roth (1948), and Stipe Miocic (1982).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ranks 734. Before her are Michael Parenti (1933), Tom Brokaw (1940), Richard Russo (1949), Sarah Moore Grimké (1792), Gardner Fox (1911), and W. S. Merwin (1927). After her are Carol J. Adams (1951), Jonathan Safran Foer (1977), Harry Turtledove (1949), Arthur Laurents (1917), Larry Kramer (1935), and Robert Coover (1932).

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