Florida Fiction for Summer Reading - the University Press of Florida presents Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Correspondence between Maxwell E. Perkins and

Edited by Rodger L. Tarr (1999)

This compelling collection of letters brings together for the first time the entire known correspondence--nearly 700 letters, notes, and wires--of the preeminent 20th-century American editor and his Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
464pp. 6 X 9.
Cloth, $34.95. 0-8130-1691-6

Idella Parker

From Reddick to Cross Creek

by Idella Parker with Bud and Liz Crussell (1999)

This book is the one Idella Parker's fans begged her to write--the illustrated story that tells what happened before and after she worked for Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (described in Idella's earlier memoir) and adds frank new details about her years as cook, housekeeper, and confidante to Florida's Pulitzer Prize winner.

240pp. 5 ½ X 8 ½.

Cloth, $19.95. 0-8130-1706-8

Other books edited by Rodger L. Tarr:

Poems by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1997)

"A fascinating tapestry woven from the lives of women who had won the right to vote a mere six years earlier. In Songs of a Housewife, we hear the voice of an emerging feminist, a voice that stubbornly and--given the political climate of the 1920s--courageously insists that women be respected. Fans of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings will be surprised and ultimately delighted by this long overdue collection."--Connie May Fowler, author of Sugar Cage and Before Women Had Wings

288pp.

Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0-8130-1491-3

Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1994)

Like others who wrote about the South, Rawlings grappled with the problem of how to portray honestly, yet without racism, the situation and the language of her neighbors. Her empathetic description of blacks and her portrayal of the Florida Cracker contribute a valuable perspective on twentieth-century American culture in transition.

386pp.

Photographs, notes, index.

Cloth, $49.95s. ISBN 0-8130-1252-X
Paper, $24.95. ISBN 0-8130-1253-8

The Creek
by J.T. Glisson (1993)
Foreword by Rip Torn.

In her 25 years at the Creek, Miz Rawlings was regarded as "That Woman"--warm, high-strung, and simply eccentric. She drove recklessly, smoked in public, and had "black spells." A Pulitzer Prize did little to change her status. In Cross Creek everyone had space to be a character and every character had a title: the meanest, laziest, most pregnant, or best cat fisherman.

283pp. 19 drawings, map.

Cloth, $29.95. 0-8130-1184-1
Paper, $16.95. 0-8130-1185-X

Idella: Marjorie Rawlings' "Perfect Maid"

by Idella Parker, with Mary Keating (1992)

156pp. Photographs.

Cloth, $24.95. ISBN 0-8130-1143-4
Paper, $13.95. ISBN 0-8130-1144-2

Frontier Eden:
The Literary Career of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

by Gordon E. Bigelow (1966)

162pp. Illustrations, maps, index.

Paper, $17.95. ISBN 0-8130-0672-4