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:
“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.”
—Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930)
“Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)