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We have a great lineup of fabulous Florida authors
that will be featured here in Celebrity Author Spotlight during the next few months.

 


Kathryn VanSpanckeren

University of Tampa

Is Poetry Relevant?


Books of poetry are flagstones in an unseen path, one flagstone mysteriously leading to the next. What will you read tomorrow, or today?

Who will light your path?

 

  

Celebrity Author:
Peter Meinke

Peter Meinke: The Man and the Works
by Patricia Lieb

Poems by Peter Meinke

The First Marriage
The Secret Code
Liquid Paper

  

Celebrity Author:
Frank C. Strunk

Madeira Beach Author Frank C. Strunk talks about the craft of writing and his new suspense thriller, Throwback. (HarperCollins)

by Evelyn Manak

 

Frank C. Strunk shares some of his writing tips.

  
Frank C. Strunk gives us an insight to the virtuous, self-reliant people of the Appalachian Mountains that he portrays so vividly in his suspense novels, Jordon's Wager, Jordon's Showdown, and his latest suspense thriller, Throwback, see Book Mart.

"In the old mountain culture , those old kind of virtues were of paramount importance to people. You could be relied upon to keep your word. And you did not transgress against anybody and you would not be transgressed against. I have studied mountain history for many years and I love to read about it so it was a natural thing for me to write about it."

In his riveting new novel, Throwback, (HarperCollins Publishers, New York;August 1996; $20) Frank C. Strunk has set a deftly-plotted thriller in an unconventional locale--the wild and sparsely-inhabited mountains of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. Himself a native of this rustic paradise, Strunk infuses his page-turning narrative with a lifelong love and appreciation for this untamed land and the nonconformist people who inhabit it. Read more about Throwback.

Read more about Frank C. Strunk.

Celebrity Author:
Patrick D. Smith


Florida Author Patrick D. Smith recalls,
"Writers were my heroes, while I was growing up."

"In my own case, I have a rather old-fashioned view of the art of writing and of the mission of a writer. I grew up in a small rural town in Mississippi during the depression -- no TV or such -- and the main forms of entertainment were the fields and woods and streams -- and books. Writers were my heroes, and I read everything from the Hardy Boys series to the classic works of Charles Dickens. I helped track Moby Dick through countless sessions, and my skin turned to goose pimples with Edgar Allen Poe. And I believe that writing ability was a scared trust and should be used as such -- that writers should not only entertain but should also use their talent to illuminate the unfortunate and unjust things in life and to thus enlighten the human heart.

"And old-fashioned and outmoded view? Perhaps. But that is why I have chosen to write books about the lowly and the meek and the underdogs in life -- Pearl River swamp rats and poor whites and blacks in the South during the struggles of the 1960's and downtrodden Indians and migrant workers. These are things many people know little about but should."

Patrick D. Smith's "Angel City" was published in 1978 and was made
into a CBS Movie Of The Week the following year; it is available on video. As Smith pointed out in his article, the novel deals with a fictitious migrant camp in South Florida. In researching the story, Smith bought used clothes and shoes and set out to find himself a job as a migrant worker. And when the movie was filmed, Smith had a bit part as a man on the streets selling okra.

Read more about Patrick D. Smith.

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