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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…

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".…

Judy Blume is a one of America’s most beloved authors and a committed anti-censorship activist. One of her most well-known titles is Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, a beloved book for adolescent girls that addresses the taboo subject of…

Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947 and sold his first professional short story in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories. As a high school English teacher he spent his evenings and weekends writing short stories and working on novels. After…

Rick Yancey is a Florida native, having been born in Miami and then growing up in central Florida with his adopted family. He is the author of fifteen novels and a memoir, and the recipient of a Michael L. Printz Honor for his novel, The…

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…