Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

American novelist.

Born August 8th, 1896 in Washington, D.C.. [ref]

Died December 14th, 1953 at 57 years old in St. Augustine (disease). [ref]

Occupations
children's writer, novelist, screenwriter, writer

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel