In 1928, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and her husband bought a small orange grove in tiny Cross Creek, Florida and moved from New York to live there. Her husband hated it and they were soon divorced.
Marjorie loved it and stayed for most of the rest of her life. She wrote fiction based on her Florida Cracker and African American neighbors. In 1939 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Yearling.