Today in History: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Today in History–August 8–the Library of Congress features journalist, short-story writer and novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, born on this day in 1896. Rawlings received a Pulitzer prize for her novel The Yearling in 1938. Find out more by visiting the Today in History section, then click the links below to access more women writer resources.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings resources
- Short-story Writer and Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Was Born from America’s Library
- Rawlings image set
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings historical newspaper coverage
- S.2934 – 98th Congress (1983-1984): A bill to create the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings National Wildlife Refuge
Women writer primary source collections
- The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress
- Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture
- Collection Spotlight: Works by Civil War Era African American Women
- Collection Spotlight: Women Photojournalists
- Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During WWII
Women writer resource sets
- Louisa May Alcott
- Nellie Bly
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Joy Harjo
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Gabriela Mistral
- Toni Morrison
- Patricia Smith
- Tracy K. Smith
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Gertrude Stein
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Natasha Trethewey
- Phyllis Wheatley
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Women Writers Webcasts
- Isabel Allende
- Rae Armantrout
- Maria Celeste Arrarás
- Judy Blume
- Donna Britt
- Sandra Cisneros
- Patricia Cornwell
- Anna Dewdney
- Kirstin Downey
- Ree Drummond
- Maria Dueñas
- Margarita Engle
- Kathleen Ernst
- Linda Greenhouse
- Joy Harjo
- Charlaine Harris
- Ellen Hopkins
- Eloisa James
- Tayari Jones
- Margot Livesey
- Adele Logan Alexander
- Lois Lowry
- Melissa Marr
- Andrea Mitchell
- Sue Monk Kidd
- Pat Mora
- Shelia Moses
- Anna Mwalagho
- Azar Nafisi
- Michele Norris
- Mary Pope Osborne
- Nell Irvin Painter
- Patricia Polacco
- Anna Quindlen
- Esmé Raji Codell
- Cokie Roberts
- Marilynne Robinson
- Laura Amy Schlitz
- Lisa Scottoline
- Patricia Smith
- Rebecca Stead
- Maggie Stiefvater
- Susan Tejada
- Raina Telgemeier
- Jacqueline Woodson
- Literature to Life: Zora! (Zora Neale Hurston)