Selected letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

"Before she settled in the scrub country, Marjorie Rawlings had been a newspaperwoman in Louisville Kentucky, and Rochester New York. Tiring of a life that seemed "scrappy and always in a hurry," she turned her hand unsuccessfully to short-story writing. She had almost given up when, at 32, she used a small legacy to buy her 72-acre orange grove at Cross Creek. The people and the country inspired her to continue writing. Increasingly, her fiction reflected her deepening knowledge of her chosen p...

Gordon E. Bigelow is the editor of Selected Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. He's a careful curator of literary correspondence, bringing us closer to the voices of significant authors.

Laura V. Monti is the editor of the Selected Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. She brings a keen eye for literary history to her work.