Flannery O’Connor’s
A Good Man is Hard to Find

…  The story begins when a family packs up their car and heads south from Tennessee to Florida for a family vacation. …

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, in 1891. In 1892, her family moved to Eatonville, Florida. …

Lillian Smith

… Born in 1897 to a wealthy white family in Jasper Florida (a town near the Georgia border) Lillian Smith was first and foremost a civil rights activist. …

James Dickey

When he came back from this, his second tour of duty, he taught at Rice University in Texas and then at the University of Florida. …

Joshilyn Jackson

Jackson: I was born in the Florida panhandle, spitting distance from Alabama. My father was military, so my early years were spent all over, mostly in the …