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     Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)

                        Always Hungry

First Line: My children always say they're "starved."

Always Hungry was published August 5, 1926 in Rawlings regular column in the Rochester Times-Union. As such, it is protected by copyright and cannot be displayed without permission of the copyright holder. It can be found in:

  • Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. Poems by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Songs of a Housewife. Rodger L. Tarr ed. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1997.

    Rawlings was awarded the Pultizer Prize for Fiction in 1939 for her book The Yearling.