Nine Florida Stories, Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Nine Florida Stories presents some of Marjory Stoneman Douglas’ best fiction, spanning diverse themes and all set in Florida. Even when the story turns away from the natural world, the smell of mangos and sticky Florida air hovers over every page.
As well as a journalist, author, women's suffrage advocate, Marjory Stoneman Douglas is Florida’s most celebrated environmentalist — a defender of the Everglades against efforts to drain it and reclaim land for development. In her 50s, Douglas wrote the definitive book on the Everglades. In her 60s, three novels and two nonfiction works. Her 70s saw her become director of the University of Miami Press. In her 80s she founded Friends of the Everglades. Oh no, not done yet - in her 90s, Marjory Stoneman Douglas finished her autobiography and continued the fight to save the water resources of South Florida. She died aged 108 on May 14, 1998.
“To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.”
