Author Biographies
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Author Biographies
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A brief blurb about an author featured in the collection
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Barry, Dave
Dave Barry has been a professional humorist ever since he discovered that professional humor was a lot easier than working. For many years he wrote a newspaper column that appeared in more than 500 newspapers and generated thousands of letters from…
Hurston, Zora Neale
Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist and author. In 1925, shortly before entering Barnard College, Hurston became one of the leaders of the literary renaissance happening in Harlem, producing the short-lived literary magazine Fire!! along…
LaBranche, Randall
Randall LaBranche grew up in New Hampshire and studied Psychology at Florida State University and Human Resources at Golden Gate University. He was a consultant traveling the U.S. for a good part of his career and spent a number of years teaching…
Mincks, Margaret
Margaret Mincks grew up the second oldest of eight kids. When she wasn’t swimming, acting, making up slightly disturbing songs, or filming B-movie parodies with siblings and friends, she was writing stories. After graduating from the University of…
Monaco, Rebecca
Rebecca is living in Orlando, FL and has her BA in English - Literature with a minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She has a twin sister named Jessica, who is her closest friend and unofficial book editor. Rebecca married her husband, Justin,…
Pratt, Theodore
Theodore Pratt, of Delray Beach, has specialized in writing about Florida. Born in Minneapolis, he moved to Florida in 1934. Since then, out of twenty-seven books he has written, twelve have been laid entirely in his adopted state. Three of the four…
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
In 1928, with a small inheritance from her mother, the Rawlings purchased a 72-acre orange grove near Hawthorne, Florida, in a hamlet named Cross Creek for its location between Orange Lake and Lochloosa Lake. She brought the place to international…
Vogt, Brady
Brady Vogt was born in Texas. He moved around a lot for most of his childhood, but settled down in Florida in 1964 and has been there ever since. Brady works as a horticulturist and recently fulfilled his life's dream, opening his own bookstore.
White, Randy Wayne
Since leaving home at age 16, and skipping college in the process, New York Times best-selling author Randy Wayne White has been a farm hand, a brass and iron foundry worker, a telephone lineman, and, for thirteen years, a full-time fishing guide at…
Cabot, Meg
Meg Cabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana and is an author that believes in creating happy endings. She has written more than 80 books for adults and teens, many of which have been New York Times #1 Bestsellers and sold over twenty-five million…