Dana hill

Charles rawlings
Cross creek
Marjorie kinnan rawlings

•

BOOKS BY MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS

BOOKS about MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS
South Moon Under, 1933 Frontier Eden: The Literary Career of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Gordon Bigelow, 1966 Golden Apples, 1935 The Selected Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Edited by Gordon Bigelow and Laura V. Monti, 1983 The Yearling, 1938 Marjorie
•
THERE WAS A BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR MARJOrie Kinnan Rawlings last month, in the Cracker home at Cross Creek where she came to live and write 60 years ago. The house is a state historical site, meticulously maintained. There are no T- shirts for sale on the front porch; no Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ashtrays or bumper stickers. Just a rough-hewn table and the typewriter Rawlings used to write Cross Creek, The Yearling and all the other stories that immortalized this place as a Florida frontier.
You can walk the creaking clapboard floor at Cross Creek. You can stroll by the duck pond and the kitchen garden out back, always freshly hoed, and feel the breeze from Orange Lake drift through the screens.
The handful of devotees who organized the celebration of what would have been Marjorie’s 92nd birthday were careful to arrange a party that would have pleased her. They invited just a dozen people, mostly old friends and English professors. They put flowers in the toilet bowl, as she did when the bathroom was installed and she felt compelled to throw a party to celebrate the joys of ind
•
Husband of author Rawlings dies
Norton Sanford Baskin, "keeper of the flame" for his late wife, celebrated Cross Creek writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, has died at age 95.
Mr. Baskin, a retired hotelier in failing health for several years, died Friday at Vicar's Landing Health Care Center. His death came a week after he helped to celebrate the 101st birthday of his wife, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Yearling.
Services were Tuesday in St. Augustine, with burial next to his wife at Antioch Cemetery in Island Grove, near Cross Creek. The funeral cortege's route to the cemetery included the road past the couple's Cross Creek home that is now the Marjorie K. Rawlings State Historic Site.
Mr. Baskin and the author, divorced from Charles Rawlings in 1933, married in 1941. After the marriage, she divided her time between their St. Augustine home and her Cross Creek retreat, where she continued to write until her death.
"He was a lovely, charming and funny man," said Idella Parker of Ocala, whose Idella: Marjorie Rawlings' "Perfect Maid,' tells of her years with Mrs. Ra