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Rex Beach adventure novels were among the most popular in the country in the early 1900's. Regular people loved his books, but intellectuals and critics did not like his stuff, referring to them as the "he-man school of literature", or "pot boilers".…

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…

Romance novel set in Alaska following some of the same characters as first discovered in Beach's The Spoilers.

The story of a War World 1 soldier who returns home to find his marriage has been annulled.

A fitful breeze played among the mesquite bushes. The naked earth, where it showed between the clumps of grass, was baked plaster hard. It burned like hot slag, and except for a panting lizard here and there, or a dust-gray jack-rabbit, startled from…

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…

In Florida Roundabout Mr. Pratt draws upon twenty-five years of writing about Florida. The scene is really round-about, traveling five hundred miles from the northern part the state to the Florida Keys, from the west to the east coasts. The time…

Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.

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…

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…