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:
“Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“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)
“The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time. It is a great stride. It is a sign,—is it not? of new vigor, when the extremities are made active, when currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)