Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
This cacheted cover and commemorative stamp honor author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings who lived in Cross Creek, Florida, near Hawthorne, in Alachua County. Rawlings won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1938 novel The Yearling. The US Post Office issued this stamp on February 21, 2008, as part of its Literary Arts stamp series. The first-day-of-issue ceremony took place near her Cross Creek home, now a state park.
Postmarked: Hawthorne, Florida
Postmark date: February 21, 2008
Acc. no. 2025M.017.005
