Congratulations to our Writers4Higher
author and friend
Randy Wayne White
Writers4Higher has featured the author Randy Wayne White in the past. Can't say enough good things about this fellow. He's back with another wacky Doc Ford Novel, Caribbean Rim.
Doc Ford fans, hold onto your sunshades and make sure your beverage of choice is fresh. Randy Wayne White is ready to take you to the wild, reckless, non-touristy Caribbean, the side cruise ships don't count into their shore excursions. Murder, sunken treasure, pirates, and general mayhem add to the quirky cast of characters.
Here's his bio:
Randy Wayne White is a New York Times best selling author
of thirty-six novels, four collections of non-fiction, a cookbook, The Ultimate
Tarpon Book (with Carlene Brennan) and a PBS documentary, Gift of the Game, which won Best of Show at the internationally
respected Woods Hole Film Festival. He
is also an Editor At Large for OUTSIDE MAGAZINE, which was founded by ROLLING
STONE.
Caribbean Rim is the 25th book in his highly
acclaimed series about Florida Marine Biologist, Doc Ford. Previous titles have enjoyed lengthy stays on
best seller lists such as The New York Times, U.S.A. Today, the Washington Post
and the L.A. Times. More than one
million copies of the Doc Ford novels are in print.
White is also partners
in three popular Florida restaurants named after his protagonist: Doc Ford's
Rum Bar and Grilles.
His series of novels
about fishing guide Hannah Smith has also received critical acclaim. HAUNTED, the third in the Hannah series, and
DECEIVED, were both awarded the Florida Gold Medal for General Fiction -- the
only time in history when an author, or consecutive books in a series, have won
this prestigious award. White was
especially delighted because Hannah had to beat out his Doc Ford novels to win.
Over the last decade,
all of the Doc Ford and Hannah Smith novels have appeared on the New York Times
and other best sellers lists, and are wildly popular around the nation. White's novel, SANIBEL FLATS, was chosen by
the American Independent Mystery Booksellers Association as one of the Hundred
Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century.
In 2012, Randy was
honored by the Florida Historical Society as a Literary Legend. He has been awarded the Conch Republic Prize
for Literature, along with such notables as John Cheever, Peter Matthiessen,
Jim Harrison, and Thomas McGuane. He
also won the John D. MacDonald Award for Literary Excellence, as have Carl
Hiaasen, and Thomas Cochran. He is one
of only five Editors at Large for
Outside Magazine, along with Jon Krakauer, David Quamman and Tim Cahill, and
was a contributing editor and columnist for Men's Journal and National
Geographic Adventurer. In 2009, Randy was
elected an American Fellow by The Explorers Club, New York City. In 2013 Gulfshore Life Magazine honored him
as Man of the Year.
Randy is also active
in Florida civic affairs. He spent four
years serving on the Florida Judicial Nominating Commission, and also four
years on the Florida Bar Association Grievance Committee, appointed by the Florida Bar. He was also a co-founder of Big Brothers in
South Florida.
Randy was a
light tackle fishing guide at Tarpon Bay Marina, Sanibel Island for 13-years,
did more than 3,000 charters, and draws heavily on those experiences for his
novels about marine biologist Doc Ford and his quirky pals at Dinkin's
Bay. In 2003, he became one of the
founding partners in Doc Ford's Rum Bar and Grille, with restaurants on
Sanibel, Fort Myers Beach, and soon to be South Seas Resort, Captiva Island.
Randy and his wife,
singer/songwriter Wendy Webb, live on Sanibel, where he enjoys paddle surfing
and hanging out with old baseball buddies.
I don't know about you, but I gave up counting the times "also" appeared in his official bio. Goodness!
Kudos to you, Sir, from the Writers4Higher family. We wish you the very best on this new novel.
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