The Life She Wished to LiveWashington, DC born and Wisconsin educated, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an unlikely author of a coming of age novel about a poor central Florida child and his pet fawnmuch less one that has become synonymous with Florida literature writ large. Rawlings was a tough, ambitious, and independent woman who refused the conventions of her early twentieth century upbringing. Determined to forge a literary career beyond those limitations, she found her voice