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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“In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.”
—James Connolly (1870–1916)