6128, citing Antioch Cemetery, Island Grove, Alachua County, Florida, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave . Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Photo taken by Carl Van Vechten , 1953 In the years that immediately followed at Cross creek, Marjorie reached the peak of her literary career. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name.The book was written long before the concept … Marjorie Rawlings and Norton Baskin are buried side by side in the Antioch Cemetery on the outskirts of Island Grove, about seven miles east of her home in Cross Creek. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (8 Aug 1896–14 Dec 1953), Find a Grave Memorial no. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Dec. 15 (UP)--Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, whose story of a Florida backwoods boy won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939, died of a cerebral hemorrhage last night in Flagler Hospital. Visit Antioch Cemetery | Rawlings Grave Site. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name. The book was written long before the concept … Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Cross Creek still belongs to time. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park - See 230 traveler reviews, 134 candid photos, and great deals for Hawthorne, FL, at … Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time. December 16, 1953 OBITUARY Mrs. Rawlings, 57, Novelist, Is Dead By THE NEW YORK TIMES. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. So ends the book, Cross Creek, written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.