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Great Books list by Jane Anderson Jones

...with no disrespect and great admiration for those not on it including Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,
Wallace Stevens, Jimmy Buffett, Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Smith, Theodore Pratt, Jose Yglesias, Harry Crews,
Beverly Coyle, Carl Hiassen and others (see A Florida Bibliography)

Elizabeth Bishop, NORTH AND SOUTH, 1946, in her Complete Poems, 1927-79
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, THE EVERGLADES: RIVER OF GRASS, 1947
Connie May Fowler, RIVER OF HIDDEN DREAMS, 1994
Zora Neale Hurston, MULES AND MEN, 1935, African-American folklore by the author of THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
Betty Mae Jumper, LEGENDS OF THE SEMINOLES, 1998
Stetson Kennedy, PALMETTO COUNTRY, 1942, 1989
Peter Matthiessen, KILLING MISTER WATSON, 1991
James McMullen, CRY OF THE PANTHER, 1984
Randy Wayne White, THE MAN WHO INVENTED FLORIDA, 1993
Joy Williams, BREAKING AND ENTERING, 1988
List by Jane Anderson Jones

...with no disrespect and great admiration for those not on it including
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Wallace Stevens, Jimmy Buffett, Ernest
Hemingway, Patrick Smith, Theodore Pratt, Jose Yglesias, Harry Crews,
Beverly Coyle, Carl Hiassen and others (see A Florida Bibliography

Elizabeth Bishop, NORTH AND SOUTH, 1946 in her Complete Poems, 1927-79
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, THE EVERGLADES: RIVER OF GRASS, 1947
Connie May Fowler, RIVER OF HIDDEN DREAMS, 1994
Zora Neale Hurston, MULES AND MEN, 1935, a collection of
African-American folklore by the author of the classic novel,
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
Betty Mae Jumper, LEGENDS OF THE SEMINOLES, 1998
Stetson Kennedy, PALMETTO COUNTRY, 1942, 1989
Peter Matthiessen, KILLING MISTER WATSON, 1991
James McMullen, CRY OF THE PANTHER, 1984
Randy Wayne White, THE MAN WHO INVENTED FLORIDA, 1993
Joy Williams, BREAKING AND ENTERING, 1988

List compiled by Jane Anderson Jones, professor of English and
Humanties at Manatee Community College, Venice,
and co-editor of FLORIDA IN POETRY