Tampa Bay Area Writers

Connie May Fowler, Novelist

The Problem with Murmur Lee

When Katie Wakes

Remembering Blue

Before Women Had Wings

River of Hidden Dreams

Sugar Cage

*http://www.conniemayfowler.com/

 

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Linda Crockett Gray (aka Linda Crockett, Christina Crockett)

Scryer

Tangerine

Song of the Seabird

Carousel

Safelight

 

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Skip Harris

Banjo Picker

Florida Fishin’

*http://www.geocities.com/evmanak/harris.html

 

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Richard Fontaine Hill, novelist

Ghost Story

 

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Bell Hooks (Gloria Watson)

              Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism

              Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

              Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

              Happy to Be Nappy

              Homemade Love

              Salvation: Black People and Love

*http://www.allaboutbell.com/

 

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Ann Hyman

The Lansing Legacy
Chaos Clear as Glass: a Memoir

 

 

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Lee Irby, Novelist    

7000 Clams

The Up and Up

*http://www.leeirby.com/

                      

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Bob Devin Jones, Playwright

Uncle Bends: A Home-Cooked Negro Narrative

Black Witness: James Baldwin

*http://www.greatleap.org/bob/

 

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Stephen King

*http://www.stephenking.com/

 

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Gianmarc Manzione, Poet

This Brevity

*http://www.modern-review.com/parsifal/authors/thisbrevity.html

 

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Dionisio Martinez

Bad Alchemy

History as a Second Language

*http://www.nortonpoets.com/martinezd.htm

 

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Maureen McDole, Poet

Exploring My Options

www.summerfolkpress.com

 

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Peter Meinke, Poet and Fiction Writer

 

Short Stories:

Unheard Music

The Piano Tuner, a collection of short stories

"The Starlings of Leicester Square”

 

Poetry Collections:

Liquid Paper: New & Selected Poems

Far From Home

Night Watch on the Chesapeake

*http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/creativewriting/faculty/Peter%20Meinke.php

 

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Gary Mormino

Tampa, The Treasure City

The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa

 

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James Nolan

While I Live in the Forest

What Moves Is Not the Wind

Stones of the Sky

 

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Carol J. Perry

Going Overboard

Sister vs. Sister

My Perfect Winter

13 and Loving It

Make Believe Love

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Anthony P. Pizzo

Tampa Town, The Cracker Village with a Latin Accent

The Italian Heritage in Tampa

Tampa, The Treasure City

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Alice M. Putnam

The Spy Doll

The Whistling Swan

That New Guy

Murder in the Morning

Love’s Sweet Revenge

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Diane Sawyer

The Tomoka Mystery

The Montauk Steps

The Montauk Mystery

*http://www.amazon.com/Montauk-Mystery-Avalon/dp/0803493991

 

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Martha Serpas, Poet

Côte Blanche

The Dirty Side of the Storm

 

*http://www.nortonpoets.com/serpasm.htm

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Marjorie M. Schuck

Poetry Venture

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Basdai Sookoor, Poet and Non-fiction Writer

Into the Light, Love Poems: A Healing Journey

Back from the Abyss: Surviving Perimenopause

http://www.basdaiwrites.com/

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Frank C. Strunk

Jordon’s Wager

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Dewey Davis-Thompson

*http://internetadept.com/history.html

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Sterling Watson, novelist

              Weep No More My Brother

              The Calling

              Blind Tongues

              Deadly Sweet

              Sweet Dream Baby

*http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/literature/faculty/watson.php

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Here's some history of our area for ya...

Anna Maria Island

Joseph Arnold Hayes - The Desperate Hours

He wrote this novel while spending the summer of 1952 on Anna Maria Island. It was later made into a famous Tony Award-winning play starring Paul Newman and Fredric March. In 1955, a film version was made starring March and Humphrey Bogart.

Ellenton

East of Palmetto on U.S. 301, Ellenton is the site of the Gamble Plantation, the only Confederate shrine in Florida and the oldest building residing on our west coast. The 1850 mansion situated on the 3,000-acre plantation was the place where the secretary of state of the Confederacy, Judah Benjamin took refuge. At the end of the Civil War, he made his final escape to England where he practiced law for 17 years.

Eli N. Evan-  Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate

Robert Douthat Meade-  Judah Benjamin, Confederate Statesman 

Simon I. Neiman-  Judah Benjamin

A.J. Hanna-  Flight Into Oblivion

~~resource used: Book Lover’s Guide to Florida. Kevin M. McCarthy, Editor. 1992. Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Fl.~~

**MORE HISTORY IS ON THE WAY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE.