The Atlantic Bookshelf

EDUCATED at the University of Wisconsin. Marjorie Rinnan Rawlings studied under William Ellery Leonard and was successfully inoculated with cacoëthes scribendi. Following her graduation in 1918, she wrote short stories and a good deal of poetry, both of which took the hard road and eventually came home. But her first, short novel, Jacob’s Ladder, had in it qualities which were recognized by the editors of Scribner’s, and then in March 1933 came South Moon Under, an immediate choice by the judges of the Book-of-the-Month Club. In the same year her short story, ‘Gal Young Un,’ was awarded the O. Henry prize.