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A new exhibit that introduces the Robert D. Middendorf Collection of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953), the Florida-based writer best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Yearling (1938), has opened in the Mezzanine Gallery of Thomas Cooper Library.
The exhibit, which will be on display through April 30, covers the whole of Rawlings' writing career, from her earliest magazine stories for McCall's, her discovery by Scribner's magazine and Scribner's legendary editor Maxwell Perkins, her first novels, and the success of her subsequent books, notably The Yearling and Cross Creek (1942).
The exhibit is the first from the Middendorf Collection, which the library recently acquired through a generous gift-purchase agreement using funds donated to the Treasures Acquisition Program. Along with first editions and periodical writings, the Middendorf Collection also includes letters, proofs, and movie memorabilia.
"The Middendorf collection supports other recent acquisitions made through the Donna I. Sorensen Endowment for Southern Women in the Arts, and through the Rawlings/Scribner/ Perkins connection, it relates closely also to Thomas Cooper Library's other collections of Scribner authors: the Matthew J. & Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Speiser & Easterling-Hallman Collection of Ernest Hemingway, the James Dickey Library, and the John Hall Wheelock Archive," said Patrick Scott, Thomas Cooper Library's director of special collections.
For more information about the Rawlings' exhibit, call 7-8154.
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