ThirtyFour-50's tracks Joseph Dobzynski Sr.

Noted Journalist and Florida native Bill DeYoung discusses and signs his book SKYWAY: THE TRUE STORY OF TAMPA'S SIGNATURE BRIDGE AND THE MAN WHO BROUGHT IT DOWN

Lynn Waddell has had a diverse writing career. Based in the Tampa Bay area, she’s covered major Florida news stories for national publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Newsweek, Daily Beast.com and NPR.com. She has appeared on MSNBC and the Oxygen Network’s true crime series “Snapped,” and been a guest on radio talk shows throughout the United States.


Her first book Fringe Florida: Travels among Mud Boggers, Furries, Ufologists, Nudists, and Other Lovers of Unconventional Lifestyles is an offbeat tome that takes readers inside some of the state’s most eclectic and daring worlds. University Press of Florida plans to release Fringe Florida on Sept. 17, 2013. Discounted pre-order is available on Amazon.com.


She has written for state and national travel magazines, worked as a field producer for a Paris news crew, and researched for a major motion picture.

Jeff Klinkenberg, who writes about Florida culture for the St. Petersburg Times, is the author of the book collection of essays, Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators, published by University Press of Florida. Previous anthologies, Seasons of Real Florida and Dispatches from the Land of Flowers, have been best sellers.

Born in 1949, Klinkenberg grew up in Miami and began exploring the Florida Keys and the Everglades as a small boy. He started working at The Miami News when he was 16 and became a journalism graduate of the University of Florida. He’s in the UF Journalism College’s Hall of Fame.

He has worked at the South’s largest newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times, since 1977. His column is called Real Florida.

Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder is a compelling look at a young Sylvia Plath and the life-changing month that would lay the groundwork for her seminal novel, The Bell Jar.
In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle’s annual College Issue. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended the ballet, went to a Yankee game, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She was supposed to be having the time of her life. But what would follow was, in Plath’s words, twenty-six days of pain, parties, and work, that ultimately changed the course of her life.

Rick Kilby
Although historians have long debunked the myth of the conquistador’s search for the Fountain of Youth,Finding the Fountain of Youth: Ponce de Leon and Florida's Magical Waters (University Press of Florida; $14.95) shows how myth became inextricably tied to the image of the Sunshine State. Featuring reproductions of eye-catching postcards, vintage advertisements, vibrant photos, and other “Ponceabilia,” the book reveals how Florida itself has been transformed into a veritable Fountain of Youth. Kilby, president of Kilby Creative, is a graphic designer.

William Charles "Bill" Ayers retired professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a former Chicago community organizer and voice for urban educational reform A former leader in the counterculture movement that opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Known for his 1960s radical activism as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction. In 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group in response to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

He is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar. During the 2008 US presidential campaign, a controversy arose over his contacts with then-candidate Barack Obama.