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Fantastic writers from many different literary traditions, including true crime, historical fiction, and young adult, call Orlando home. Even more, have chosen to base their works in the Central Florida area. If you’re looking for recommendations, here are ten of our top picks.

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The major criteria used to compile this list were originality, depth of imagination, broad appeal, depth of characterization, and a healthy dose of sardonic humor. Let’s dive into to learn more about the top 10 writers from Orlando:

Kristen Arnett

In her book Mostly Dead Things, Kristen Arnett captures the gut-wrenching emotions that come with love and loss. The protagonist of this book is a young woman from Florida who, after the death of her father’s suicide, is thrust into the role of running the family taxidermy business as the rest of her dysfunctional family grapples with unusual coping techniques. It has achieved best-seller status in the New York Times and a film adaptation has been considered.

Bob Morris

Bob Morris, a longtime nature writer based in Central Florida, has five new ebooks available now. Titles like “Short Road to Hell,” “All over the Map,” “Gut Check,” “The Man with the Fish on His Foot,” and “The Whole Shebang” provide lessons in life that will make you laugh, cry, and ultimately come to love Florida’s wild landscapes.

Jenny Torres Sanchez

The four young adult novels were written by Jenny Torres Sanchez and cover topics such as loss, sadness, family, and hope. These novels are The Fall of Innocence, Because of the Sun, The Downside of Being Charlie, and Death, Dickinson, and the Demented Life of Frenchie Garcia. Sánchez’s writing is honest and genuine, and her training as a librarian comes through in her characters’ appreciation of the written word.

John Frame

John M. Frame is a Christian philosopher and Calvinist theologian who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 8, 1939. He is most known for his contributions to the fields of epistemology and presuppositional apologetics, systematic theology, and ethics. He is widely regarded as one of the most authoritative commentators on the ideas of Cornelius Van Til.

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac, born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac on March 12, 1922, died on October 21, 1969. He was a prominent member of the Beat Generation together with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.

George Garrett

American poet and novelist George Palmer Garrett was born on June 11, 1929, and died on May 25, 2008. From 2002 to 2004, he served as Virginia’s Poet Laureate. His works include the novellas “The Finished Man,” “Double Vision,” and “Death of the Fox,” “The Succession,” and “Entered from the Sun” (together known as “the Elizabethan Trilogy”). He taught at Cambridge University and then, for many years, at the University of Virginia, where he also reviewed books and wrote screenplays. R. H. W. Dillard, Casey Clabough, and Irving Malin have all written works about him that offer critical analysis.

Charley Reese

The conservative American syndicated columnist Charley Reese (born January 29, 1937) passed away on May 21, 2013. From 1971 through 2001, he worked for the Orlando Sentinel in a variety of editorial roles and as a staff writer. His piece appeared thrice weekly and was syndicated by King Features.

Richard L. Pratt, Jr.

American theologian and novelist Richard Linwood Pratt Jr. (born October 17, 1953) also established and leads Third Millennium Ministries. Because there was a deficiency in the education of Christian leaders worldwide, the Third Millennium was initiated. Since the turn of the millennium, scholars have realized that in regions with the most rapid church growth, Christian leaders tend to have the least formal education. In the 1980s, while on mission trips, Pratt saw this firsthand. His life’s work now centers on assisting churches around the world. He thinks everyone should be able to study the Bible in their own country, in their own language, and for free if they so choose.

Robert Charles Sproul

Reformed theologian and Presbyterian minister Robert Charles Sproul (SPROHL; February 13, 1939 – December 14, 2017) was an American. He was the host of the daily Renewing Your Mind radio show, which aired in the United States and around the world and was broadcast from the Ligonier Valley near Pittsburgh, where Ligonier Ministries was founded as a study facility for college and seminary students. The Ligonier Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, written by Sproul’s ministry under his leadership, grew into the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy in 1978, of which Sproul and Norman Geisler were two of the principal authors. Some have called Sproul “the best and most prominent proponent of the recovery of Reformed theology in the last century.”

John Michael Green

John Michael Green, the American novelist, and video blogger was born on August 24th, 1977. The Fault in Our Stars, his fourth novel, debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list in January 2012, while his first, Looking for Alaska, was named a 2006 Printz Honor Book. The film adaptation premiered in 2014 and had a record-breaking opening weekend. Green has been included as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people since 2014. On July 24, 2015, a film was released based on another novel by Green called Paper Towns.