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:
“How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn’t make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)