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- As an author, filmmaker, and influential personality who funded arts organizations meets GNG. FloridaArmy (talk) 13:01, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
David T. Warner (November 25, 1948 - January 3, 2012) was an American author and filmmaker. He lived in Sarasota, Florida and wrote about Florida.[1] During his later life he lived in Lochloosa near Cross Creek, Florida.[1]
Early life[edit]
David Turner Warner was born on November 25, 1948 in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of Jonathon Westervelt Warner Sr. and Elizabeth Butler.[2][3] His maternal grandfather was Florida politician, J. Turner Butler.[4]
Career[edit]
He wrote articles for various publications and was a contributing editor to Gulfshore Life and Sarasota Magazine. He wrote and produced three travel videos about Florida sights, Bimini By The Sea, Cowboys and Indians and UFO's, and Vanishing Florida. He said Borden Deal was his mentor.[5]
He was a contributing author on A Book Lovers Guide To Florida. He owned a bar and adult movie theater in Sarasota, where children's television star Paul Reubens who portrayed Pee Wee Herman was arrested for indecent exposure.[1]
Legacy[edit]
He was involved in establishing the James Turner Butler lecture series at Stetson University and established an arts organization in Melrose, Florida.[2]
Works[edit]
Books[edit]
- Vanishing Florida : A Personal Guide To Sights Rarely Seen (2001)[6]
- Bimini: Tales of an Island Getaway
- High-Sheriff Jim Turner: High Times of a Florida Lawman (1999)
- Druid City: Snapshots of Growing Up in the Segregated South (2010) with photographs by Chris Cooper
Filmography[edit]
- Bimini-by-the-Sea
- Cowboys, Indians, and UFOs
- Vanishing Florida, a travelogue as he tours and does boom signings in areas and near sites covered in his book of the same title
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Florida Authors: What They Wrote & Where They Lived". Florida Back Roads Travel.
- ^ a b Tuscaloosa News January 6, 2012
- ^ Writer, member of Warner family dies by Mark Hughes, staff writer, January 5, 2012 The Tuscaloosa News
- ^ Writer, Mark Hughes Cobb Staff. "Writer, member of Warner family dies". The Tuscaloosa News.
- ^ Vanishing Florida film
- ^ Moon Tampa & St. Petersburg. Avalon. 31 October 2017. ISBN 9781631217234.