The book "The Yearling" was authored by who?

The book "The Yearling" was authored by Marjorie Rawlings, more fully known as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

Published in 1938, the novel follows Jody Baxter, a boy growing up in the scrub country of central Florida, and his relationship with Flag, an orphaned fawn he adopts. The story explores family, responsibility, survival, and the difficult boundary between affection and nature’s demands.

Rawlings based the setting and atmosphere on her life at Cross Creek, Florida, where she moved in 1928 and developed a distinctive literary voice rooted in rural landscapes and local communities. The Yearling became a major bestseller and was selected as the Book-of-the-Month Club’s main choice in April 1938.

A common mix-up is confusing the author with the 1946 film adaptation, which starred Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman. The novel won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, cementing Rawlings’s place in American literary history.