Patrick Smith (1927-2014) penned several novels about Florida, including Forever Island, Angel City, Allapattah, and A Land Remembered. His work was nominated seven times for the Pulitzer Prize and five times for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 1999.
~~tag-text~~
In a corner of the Big Cypress Swamp, to the north of the Florida Everglades, lives Charlie Jumper, and eighty-six-year-old Seminole man. Unlike the younger American Indians who have adopted white civilization, Charlie and his wife cling to the old ways, ... SEE MORE