REAL FLORIDA w/Jeff Klinkenberg: A Hilarious Homage to Father's Day
Season 2, Episode 798, Jun 11, 04:43 PM
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In this episode of REAL FLORIDA, award-winning author and journalist Jeff Klinkenberg shares an essay on his dad, in a hilarious homage to Father's Day. Dad is not always the king!
ABOUT JEFF: Jeff Klinkenberg writes about Florida culture and is the author of multiple books, some available locally at Tombolo and online https://bit.ly/3ZRFkiZ on topics ranging from alligators to shark attacks as well as legendary and interesting Floridians and Old Florida. In 2018, Jeff won the Florida Humanities Council's Lifetime Achievement for Writing Award. He has been a writer-in-residence for the University of South Florida’s Florida Studies program and currently is teaching a memoir class in North Carolina, splitting his time between St. Pete and the mountains. Jeff grew up in Miami and began exploring the Florida Keys and the Everglades as a child. He started working at The Miami News when he was 16. In 2007 and 2009, the American Association of Sunday Features Editors selected a body of his work as the best in the nation. He is the only two-time winner of the Paul Hansell Distinguished Journalism Award, the highest honor in state journalism, given annually to the writer with the best body of work by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. He has been nominated for a Pulitzer on many occasions. He has written for Esquire, Outside, Travel and Leisure and Audubon magazines.
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ABOUT JEFF: Jeff Klinkenberg writes about Florida culture and is the author of multiple books, some available locally at Tombolo and online https://bit.ly/3ZRFkiZ on topics ranging from alligators to shark attacks as well as legendary and interesting Floridians and Old Florida. In 2018, Jeff won the Florida Humanities Council's Lifetime Achievement for Writing Award. He has been a writer-in-residence for the University of South Florida’s Florida Studies program and currently is teaching a memoir class in North Carolina, splitting his time between St. Pete and the mountains. Jeff grew up in Miami and began exploring the Florida Keys and the Everglades as a child. He started working at The Miami News when he was 16. In 2007 and 2009, the American Association of Sunday Features Editors selected a body of his work as the best in the nation. He is the only two-time winner of the Paul Hansell Distinguished Journalism Award, the highest honor in state journalism, given annually to the writer with the best body of work by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. He has been nominated for a Pulitzer on many occasions. He has written for Esquire, Outside, Travel and Leisure and Audubon magazines.
LISTEN UP to all REAL FLORIDA: https://audioboom.com/channels/1842136-radio-st-pete-podcast-archive?search=jeff+klinkenberg
#realflorida #journalist #author #jeffklinkenberg
#floridastories #stpete #stpetefl #tampabay #radio #radiostpete #fathersday