Today, August 8th, marks the 110th anniversary of the birthday of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Yearling. Set in 1870 in the…
The Yearling is the best known book to have come from the pen of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and letters between Rawlings and her editor at…
These are the sounds of Cross Creek, near the home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, just a few minutes south of Gainesville, Florida, where we produce these programs.
Certain writers are known for their sense of place. There is Mark Twain and his muddy brown, strolling, Mississippi River, or Jack London and his…
Leonard Weisgard died this past January, at the age of 83. He was one of the central figures in modern American children’s books, a gifted,…