A young Florida couple run
away from their bleak lives together only to face a cosmic struggle against the elements of bad luck, greed and dishonesty.
is the story of a young Florida Cracker who becomes a moonshiner and kills the cousin who betrays him.
An Englishman finds himself in exile in nineteenth-century Florida.
This Pulitzer-Prize winning
novel is the story of a boy’s initiation into manhood in the Florida wilderness where he must kill his pet deer when it destroys his family’s meager crops. This novel established Marjorie’s career as a writer.
Often compared to Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, this autobiographical bestseller chronicles Marjorie’s adaptation to the heat, frosts, mosquitoes and people of rural Florida. Shortly after its publication, Marjorie released Cross Creek Cookery, a cooking companion to her novel.
Her last novel is an allegorical story of a Michigan farm family based loosely on her grandfather’s life. This was her only novel with a northern setting.
