Florida, and in particular, North Central Florida’s Springs Heartland Region, have inspired writers for hundreds of years. Here is a list of some of the books they’ve written that we hope you will enjoy reading. We hope you might be inspired to do some writing, yourself.

Lars Andersen, Paynes Prairie
Cynthia Barnett, Mirage; Blue Revolution; Rain; The Sound of the Sea
William Bartram, Travels
Bill Belleville, River of Lakes; Rediscovering Rawlings, a River and Time
Al Burt, The Tropic of Cracker; Al Burt’s Florida
Archie Carr, A Naturalist in Florida: A Celebration of Eden
Sudye Cauthen, Southern Comforts
Susan Cerulean, Tracking Desire; Coming to Pass; I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird
Susan Cerulean, Janisse Ray, & A. James Wohlpart, eds., Unspoiled
Susan Cerulean, Janisse Ray, & Laura Newton, eds., Between Two Rivers
Jack E. Davis, An Everglades Providence; Paradise Lost? (with Raymond Arsenault); The Gulf; The Bald Eagle
Jack E. Davis & Leslie Kemp Poole, eds., The Wilder Heart of Florida
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, The Everglades; Freedom River*
Steven Earl, Ichetucknee
Richard Eberhart, Florida Poems
J. T. Glisson, The Creek
Lauren Groff, Florida
Lola Haskins, Fifteen Florida Cemeteries; many books of poetry
Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
Jane Anderson Jones and Maurice O’Sullivan, eds., Florida In Poetry
Rick Kilby, Finding the Fountain of Youth; Florida’s Healing Waters
Sidney Lanier, Florida
Cecile Hulse Matschat, Suwannee River
John Moran, Journal of Light
John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
Steven Noll and David Tegeder, Ditch of Dreams
Mallory O’Connor, Florida’s American Heritage River (art history); Xanadu’s Cavern
Maurice O’Sullivan and Jack C. Lane, editors, The Florida Reader
Leslie Kemp Poole, Saving Florida
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling; Cross Creek; South Moon Under; When the Whippoorwill; Golden Apples; Cross Creek Cookery; The Secret River*
Janisse Ray, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood; Pinhook; Wild Card Quilt; Wild Spectacle
Jeff Ripple and Susan Cerulean, eds., The Wild Heart of Florida
Anne E. Rowe, The Idea of Florida in the American Literary Imagination
Patrick Smith, A Land Remembered
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Palmetto-Leaves
Margaret Ross Tolbert, AQUIFERious
Carl Webber, The Eden of the South

*For young readers