The Life She Wished to Live - by Ann McCutchan (Paperback)

The Life She Wished to Live is a captivating biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Yearling.

This comprehensive and engaging book delves into the life of an unlikely author who defied conventions and found her voice in the remote, hardscrabble life of Cross Creek, Florida.

With intimate access to Rawlings's correspondence and 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 book sheds light on Rawlings's personal struggles, including financial instability, alcoholism, and physical and emotional upheaval, while also revealing her close relationships with literary giants such as Maxwell Perkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, and F.

Scott Fitzgerald.

This is a must-read for anyone interested in the life and work of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings or the rich cultural history of Florida.