Ten years after Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moved to the backwoods of central Florida, she wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Yearling.
Standing on her front porch today, looking at the uncomfortable chair she sat in to write, I wonder what is it that drove her to leave the ease of her life in the north for the rigors of life in a citrus grove far from any sizable town. What drove her to abandon her journalism career for the uncertainty of fiction writing?
What makes a writer write?
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