Literature
| Name | Notability | Connection to Florida |
|---|---|---|
| Dave Barry (1947–) | Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist and Best Selling Author | Born in Miami |
| Pat Frank (1907–1964) | Author most famous for Alas, Babylon | Lived in Tangerine |
| Carl Hiaasen (1953–) | Journalist and Novelist | Born in Plantation |
| Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) | Author and Folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance | Raised in Eatonville |
| James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) | Author, Poet, and Civil Rights Activist | Born in Jacksonville |
| Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953) | Novelist and Short Story Writer | Lived in Cross Creek, the setting for most of her work |
| Lillian Smith (1897–1966) | Author and Social Critic | Born in Jasper |
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Famous quotes containing the word literature:
“From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.”
—Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)