Westerville Library to Host Special Stamp Unveiling

“The Yearling” author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to be honored

Who:
U.S. Postal Service Representatives including Mark James, the officer-in-charge at the Westerville Post Office.

What:
Unveiling of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Stamp

When:
9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
March 25, 2008

Where:
126 South State Street
Westerville, OH 43081

Background:
In 1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings became famous when her novel “The Yearling” was published. The following year, Rawlings won the coveted Pulitzer Prize for the novel. Rawlings editor, Maxwell Perkins, inspired Rawlings to write the book, instructing her to write about she knew from her own life, after previously rejecting several other projects she had submitted to him for his review. “The Yearling” recounts the story of a young boy who adopts a baby deer or a fawn as a pet, naming it “Flag.” The setting is in the animal-filled Florida backwoods. Rawlings home was in Cross Creek, Florida.

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