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The Yearling  |
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| Author | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Fiction |
| Publication date | 1938 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 416 (Mass Market Paperback) |
| ISBN | NA |
The Yearling is a 1938 bildungsroman novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939.
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[edit] Background
Rawlings's editor at Scribner's Magazine was Maxwell Perkins, who also worked with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and other literary luminaries. In 1933, he suggested that she write about what she knew from her own observations, specifically a child living in the scrub woods, and the result of her taking his advice was The Yearling.[1]
After a few years and writing South Moon Under and Golden Apples, Rawlings eventually formed the book. For research, she spent time with a local hunter, listening to his stories and even going on several bear hunts with him.[2] She wrote to Perkins as her excitement for the book grew, declaring, "It will be a book boys will love."[3]
[edit] Plot synopsis
Jody Baxter is a boy about ten years old who lives with his mother and father on Baxter Island, a hammock in the backwoods of North Central Florida. Much like his father, Jody is fascinated with nature and yearns to own a pet, a raccoon, bear cub, or any animal that will love him, but his mother is afraid a wild animal will destroy their crops and stores.
[edit] Characters
Jody Baxter
[edit] Themes
Biographers of Rawlings noted amongst her correspondence the repeated theme of her own longing for a male child. Samuel Bellman declared, "Jody is Mrs. Rawlings' finest and most heart-warming literary expression of the boy she had always wanted but never had."[2]
[edit] Adaptations
It was adapted into a film in 1946, starring Gregory Peck as Ezra Baxter and Jane Wyman as Ma Baxter. Both were nominated for Oscars for their performances. A Japanese animated version (titled "Kojika Monogatari") was created in 1983.
[edit] References
- ^ Bigelow, Gordon. Frontier Eden; the literary career of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. University of Florida Press, 1966.
- ^ a b Bellman, Samuel. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Twayne Publishers; 1974.
- ^ Bigham, Julia, ed. The Marjorie Rawlings reader; selected and edited with an introd. by Julia Scribner Bigham. New York, Scribner; 1956.
