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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…

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.

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Jimmy Buffett is not only well accomplished in the music arena, he has also written several books, four of which have made the New York Times Best Sellers List with three of those topping the list. Buffett is one of only a few authors who have topped…