Patrick D. Smith
Patrick D. Smith was a celebrated American author best known for his novels about Florida.
Nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize and once for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Smith earned numerous prestigious honors, including induction into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 1999 and the University of Mississippi's Alumni Hall of Fame in 1990.
He received the Florida Historical Society's one-time Fay Schweim Award as "Greatest Living Floridian" in 2002.
The Florida Historical Society even created an annual award in his name.
A native of Mendenhall, Mississippi, Smith held degrees from the University of Mississippi and lived in Merritt Island, Florida, until his death in 2014.
