Florida

Florida Historical Novels

* personal favorites

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Adicks, Richard. A Court for Owls. Sarasota: Pineapple, 1989.

Arnold, Eugene. Big Water: A Novel of the 19th C. Florida. Moore Haven: Prospector Press, 1993.

*Cummings, Betty Sue, Say These Names (Remember Them). Englewood: Pineapple, 1984. (Seminoles)

Fo, Dario. Johan Padan. Torino: Abele, 1992.

Gannon, Michael. Secret Missions. NY: HarperCollins, 1994 (WWII Spy)

Glassman, Steve. Blood on the Moon. Brooklyn: Quality, 1990. (Osceola)

Graham, Heather. Runaway. NY: Delacort, 1994.

Gramling, Lee (Cracker Cowboy)-all published Sarasota: Pineapple Press

_____Riders of the Suwannee, 1993.

_____Thunder on the St. John, 1994.

_____Trail from St. Augustine, 1993.

_____Ghosts of the Green Swamp, 1996.

Granberry, Edwin. A Trip to Czardis. 1966.

_____Erl King. 1930.

_____Strangers and Lovers. 1928.

Hays, Wilma Pitchford. Siegel: The Story of St. Augustine in 1702. NY: Coward, McCann & 
     Geoghegan, 1976.

Hazelton, Lt. Col. Harry. The Seminole Chief: or the Captive of Kissimmee. rpt. NY: Garland, 1979.

Kaplan, Barry Jay. Biscayne. New York: Simon & Shuster, 1988.

Kaufelt, David. American Tropic. NY: Poseidon, 1986.

Krainin, Milton J. The Long Journey: A Historical Novel about David Levy Yules, Florida's First 
     Senator
. Atlanta: Miljac Press, 1995.

Levin, Beatrice. John Hawk: White Man, Black Man, Indian Chief. Austin: Eakin, 1988.

*Matthiessen, Peter. Killing Mister Watson. New York: Random, 1990.

*_____Lost Man's River. 1997.

*_____Bone by Bone, 1999.

McCunn, Ruthanne Lum. Wooden Fish Songs. NY: Dutton, 1995 (Chinese-Am.)

Mailer, Norman. Of A Fire on the Moon. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970. (Space program)

Mayerson, Evelyn Wilde. Miami: A Saga. NY: Dutton, 1994.

Michener, James. Space. NY: Random, 1982.

Munn, Vella C. Seminole Song. NY: Forge, 1997.

Powell, Richard. I Take This Land. NY: Scribner's, 1962.

_____Pioneer, Go Home. 1959.

_____Tickets to the Devil. 1968.

* Pratt, Theodore. The Big Blow. 1936. Rpt. as My Bride in the Storm.  New York: Avon. 1950.
           Also
The Big Blow  with script by Theodore Pratt,  produced by WPA Federal Theatre
           Project in NYC, Oct. 1938 - Feb. 1939.


*_____The Barefoot Mailman. 1943.

_____The Flame Tree. 1950.

_____The Big Bubble. 1951.

_____Seminole. 1954.

_____Florida Roundabout. 1959.

Price, Eugenia. Don Juan McQueen. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1974 rpt.Thorndike, MD, 1993.

_____Maria. NY: Lippincott, 1977.

_____Margaret's Story. NY: Lippincott & Crowell, 1980.

Robson, Lucia St. Clair. Light a Distant Fire. NY: Ballantine, 1988. (Seminoles)

Rust, Ann O'Connell. The Floridians Series. Orange Park: Amaro Books

_____Palatka, 1989.

_____Kissimmee. 1990.

_____Pahokee. 1992.

_____Dessa. 1996

Simms, William Gilmore. Vasconselos: A Romance of the New World. Greenwich, Ct: Fawcett, 1968.

Slate, Sam. Satan's Back Yard. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.

Slaughter, Frank G. The Golden Isle. 1947.

_____That None Should Die. 1941. (pre-paid medical care)

_____Fort Everglades. 1951.

_____Storm Haven. 1953.

_____The Warrior. 1956. (Osceola)

_____Countdown. 1970.


*
Smith, Patrick, A Land Remembered, available in reprint from Pineapple Press.

____ A Patrick Smith Reader: The River Is Home and Angel City, available in reprint from Pineapple 
      Press.

_____ A Patrick Smith Reader: Forever Island and Allapattah, available in reprint from Pineapple 
      Press.

Taylor, Robert Lewis. A Journey to Matecumbe. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1961

Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff. NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979. (Space program)

 

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