By the time that Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's first novel, South Moon Under, was published in March of 1933, the author and her husband, Charles, had been residents of Cross Creek, Florida, for over four years. As she describes in a 1930 letter to Alfred Dashiell, then the editor of Scribner's Magazine, Rawlings and her husband "deliberately cut [their] civilized ties" in Rochester, New York, and moved to the "firmly entrenched outpost of the vanishing frontier ... where life has as many elements of the idyllic as is quite reasonable." (1) Although Rawlings and her husband were ...

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