![]() ![]() "You do get all the critters - bears, elk, snakes," he says. Petersburg, but they also spend time (particularly during hurricane season) at their house near Waynesville, N.C., just outside Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Klinkenberg and his wife, Susan King, have a home in downtown St. All of them, personal and otherwise, reverberate with his deep knowledge of and love for Florida. There's one striking difference in this book: Some of its chapters are about the author's own life, especially his childhood in Miami. This one includes some of those as well as pieces he has written for other publications. Klinkenberg's earlier books have gathered versions of his Real Florida columns. (That count doesn't include Davey Crockett and the Alligator, which he wrote and illustrated at age 6 and still has.) The University Press of Florida just published his seventh book, Son of Real Florida: Stories From My Life. Petersburg.Īnd that's not all the good news. "It's been pretty amazing," Klinkenberg said during an interview at his home in St. ![]() ![]() This year, his work has garnered two awards: In early January, he was named one of three 2018 winners of the Florida Folk Heritage Awards, and at the end of January he received the Florida Humanities Council's 2018 Florida Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing. ![]()
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