Cross Creek

368 pp. 8vo. Illustrated endpapers. Decorations by Edward Shenton. The memoir that inspired the film of the same name, by the author of The Yearling. "Cross Creek is a 1983 film starring Mary Steenburgen as The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It received four Academy Award nominations, for its Costume Design, Music, Best Supporting Actor (Rip Torn) and Best Supporting Actress (Alfre Woodard). The film is based, in part, on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' 1942 memoir, Cross Creek."