THE YEARLING by MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS Hardcover Reset August 1961

"The Yearling is the novel written by . It was published in March 1938. It was the main selection of the in April 1938. It was the number one best seller for twenty-three consecutive weeks in 1938. As well as being , it was the seventh-best in 1939. It sold over 250,000 copies in 1938. It has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Russian and twenty-two other languages. It won the in 1939.

Rawlings's editor was , who also worked with , , and other literary luminaries. She had submitted several projects to Perkins for his review, and he rejected them all. He instructed her to write about what she knew from her own life, and the result of her taking his advice was The Yearling. "