3rd Edition! Bob Kealing is the author of six critically acclaimed books about Florida history and culture. He has founded four Florida Heritage sites, and was instrumental in the development of the Kerouac House in Orlando as the home of an active writers-in-residence program. Bob Kealing is a two-time Edward R. Murrow Award and six-time Emmy Award winning television reporter in Central Florida.

"Bob Kealing’s appreciative and entertaining book on Kerouac in Florida is a great contribution to the literary history of that era and to the story of the Beat Generation writers, whose popularity grows with each passing year." -Dan Wakefeild, Author of New York in the Fifties

"I will always remember Bob Kealing as the person who first introduced us to the brief but surprisingly productive time the writer once known as Memory Babe spent in Florida, and as the anchor of a project that established Orlando's Kerouac House as a creative home for scores of writers over the past quarter century. Bob's gift to all who care about history and literature is enormous." -Maurice J. O'Sullivan, Professor Emeritus of Literature Rollins College