Diane Roberts

About The Author

Diane Roberts is a columnist for the St. Petersburg Times, the Times of London, and a frequent contributor to NPR, The New Republic, The New York Times, and Oxford American, among other publications. She is an English professor at the University of Alabama and the author of Faulkner and Southern Womanhood and The Myth of Aunt Jemima. She divides her time between Tallahassee and Tuscaloosa.

Books by Diane Roberts

Dream State

Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, and Other Florida Wildlife

By Diane Roberts
Part family memoir, part political commentary, part apologia, Dream State is all Floridian, telling the grand and sometimes crazy story of the twenty-seventh state through the eyes of one of its native daughters. Acclaimed journalist and NPR commentator Diane Roberts has many family secrets and ...
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