- Insisted that her middle name, Kinnan, was a "good Scottish name" that should be accented on the last syllable. She gave up after years of correcting others' mispronunciations, and today it is invariably pronounced KINnan!
- Buried in Antioch Cemetery in Island Grove, near Ocala, Florida.
- Pictured on a 41¢ USA commemorative postage stamp in the Literary Arts series, issued 21 February 2008.
- Graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1918.
- Wrote the newspaper column "Songs Of A Housewife" in verse for a Gannett newspaper.
- Elizabeth Silverthorne published her biography on Rawlings, "Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Sojourner At Cross Creek" in 1988.
- Wrote her first novel "South Moon Under" in 1932.
- Ann McCuthan published her biography on Rawlings, "The Life She Wished To Live: A Biography Of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings" in 2021 (W.W. Norton).
- Her father worked in the US Patent Office.
- During World War I she did public relations for the Y.W.C.A.'s War Work Council.
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