The Yearling In 19.39 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Letters for her novel, T he Yearling , and elected to the Academy of <^.Tts ?.nd Letters. Marjorie Kinnan Ra^'lings wrote with a preset concept of effectiveness. Her theory of composition as evinced by her personal papers, lecture notes, scrapbooks, newspaper articles, and correspondence ?Loai.ed in the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Collection at the. University cf Florida Library, was based upon the creation of a sense oF reality, which she believed neces'-ary in orde:- to conxiuiii cuce beauty. H er^he o r y_A'',:L- corporated the proces-i cf characterization, true-to-lice depiction, universa 1 it unity, the use on facts objectivity, simplicity, and dialect.