From the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca to James Patterson, writers 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 historican James Clark tells the stories of scores of writers, including Robert Frost, Jack Kerouac, John D. MacDonald and Stephen King. Hunter S. Thompson driving through the streets of Key West using a bullhorn to warn the citizens, Tennessee Williams partying with Truman Capote, Ring Lardner planning a get-together with Al Capone...it's all here.