In this short story, Bester Boo Boo regales us with a first hand account of the adventures of a scruffy alley-cat who has his adoptive family wrapped around his finger, er paw. Mischievous and a bit too wise for his own good, Bester lives the good life until his curiosity gets the better of him.
Told in a classic Patrick Smith narrative, this whimsical tale reads like a children's story. In fact, the character of Bester Boo Boo was based on ...
In this short story, Bester Boo Boo regales us with a first hand account of the adventures of a scruffy alley-cat who has his adoptive family wrapped around his finger, er paw. Mischievous and a bit too wise for his own good, Bester lives the good life until his curiosity gets the better of him.
Told in a classic Patrick Smith narrative, this whimsical tale reads like a children's story. In fact, the character of Bester Boo Boo was based on his family's pet cat of the same name and was written with his children in mind. You can see in this story the pleasure he took in writing and the seeds for his future literary works, most notably his best known novels, Forever Island and A Land Remembered.
Patrick D. Smith is a 1999 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, the highest and most prestigious cultural honor that can be bestowed upon an individual by the State of Florida. Prior inductees include writers Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ernest Hemingway.
In May 2002 Smith was the recipient of the Florida Historical Society’s Fay Schweim Award as the “Greatest Living Floridian.” The one-time-only award was established to honor the one individual who has contributed the most to Florida in recent history. Smith was cited for the impact his novels have made on Floridians, both natives and newcomers to the state, and for the worldwide acclaim he has received.
Smith has been nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize, in 1973 for Forever Island, which was a 1974 selection of the Reader’s Digest Condensed Book Club and has been published in 46 countries; in 1978 for Angel City, which was produced as a “Movie of the Week” for the CBS television network and has aired worldwide; and in 1984 for A Land Remembered, which was an Editors’ Choice selection of the New York Times Book Review. Smith’s lifetime work was nominated for the 1985 Nobel Prize for Literature, and since then he has received five additional nominations.
In 1995 Patrick Smith was elected by The Southern Academy of Letters, Arts and Science for its highest literary award, The Order of the South. Previous recipients include Eudora Welty, James Dickey, and Reynolds Price. In 1996 he was named a Florida Ambassador of the Arts, an honor given each year by the state of Florida to someone who has made significant contributions to Florida's cultural growth.
In October 1990 he received the University of Mississippi’s Distinguished Alumni Award and was inducted into the University’s Alumni Hall of Fame. In 1997, the Florida Historical Society created a new annual award, the Patrick D. Smith Florida Literature Award, in his honor.
By an act of the 2006 Florida Legislature, a section of a major highway, SR 520 running from East Merritt Island across the Banana River to Cocoa Beach, was named the Patrick D. Smith Causeway. Secretary of State Sue Cobb was the dedication speaker with Senator Bill Posey acting as MC.
Smith resides with his wife Iris on Merritt Island, Florida.
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Told in a classic Patrick Smith narrative, this whimsical tale reads like a children's story. In fact, the character of Bester Boo Boo was based on ...