41c Literary Arts: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings single

On February 21, 2008, in Hawthorne, Florida, the Postal Service issued a 41-cent Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings commemorative stamp in one design in a pressure-sensitive adhesive pane of twenty stamps. Carl T. Herrman of Carlsbad, California, designed the stamp.

With this twenty-fourth stamp in the Literary Arts series, the Postal Service commemorated author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953), best known for her novel "The Yearling" and her memoir "Cross Creek." Rawlings is remembered for a series of short stories, novels, and works of nonfiction about life in the Florida backwoods.

The stamp was dedicated on the grounds of Rawlings's home in Cross Creek, a State of Florida historic park. In the foreground of the stamp art is a portrait of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings based on an undated photograph. The background depicts a fawn at a watering hole in the Florida scrub country. The rows of spots on the fawn, which are consistent with descriptions in "The Yearling," indicate that the fawn is a young male.

Thirty million stamps were printed in the gravure process by Avery Dennison (AVR), Clinton, South Carolina.

Reference:

Postal Bulletin (January 17, 2008).

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