Washington, DC, born and Wisconsin educated, Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings was an unlikely author of a coming-of-age novel about a
poor central Florida child and his pet fawn-much less one that has
become synonymous with Florida literature writ large. Rawlings was
a tough, ambitious, and independent woman who refused the
conventions of her early-twentieth-century upbringing. Determined
to forge a literary career beyond those limitations, she found her
voice in the remote, hardscrabble life of Cross Creek, Florida.
There, Rawlings purchased a commercial orange grove and discovered
a fascinating world out of which to write-and a dialect of the
poor, swampland community that the literary world had yet to hear.
She employed her sensitive eye, sharp ear for dialogue, and
philosophical spirit to bring to life this unknown corner of
America in vivid, tender detail, a feat that earned her the
Pulitzer Prize in 1938. Her accomplishments came at a price: a
failed first marriage, financial instability, a contentious libel
suit, alcoholism, and physical and emotional upheaval. With
intimate access to Rawlings's correspondence and revealing early
writings, Ann McCutchan uncovers a larger-than-life woman who
writes passionately and with verve, whose emotions change on a
dime, and who drinks to excess, smokes, swears, and even
occasionally joins in on an alligator hunt. The Life She Wished to
Live paints a lively portrait of Rawlings, her
contemporaries-including her legendary editor, Maxwell Perkins, and
friends Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott
Fitzgerald-and the Florida landscape and people that inspired her.
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