Florida Literary Luminaries: Writing in Paradise

From the Spanish Explorer Cabeza de Vaca to James Patterson, waiters have found inspiration in the Florida sunshine. Ernest Hemingway met his future wife at Sloppy Joe's in Key West. John Kennedy recovered from back surgery in Palm Beach while working on his Pulitzer Prize-winning book. James Weldon Johnson wrote what became the "Black national anthem" at the Stanton School in Jacksonville. And Edna St. Vincent Millay watched in shock as her manuscript went up in flames in Sanibel. Florida ...