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Patrick Smith Causeway dedicated

There is probably no place in Florida that does not hold Patrick D. Smith in the highest esteem.

Mr. Smith’s highly acclaimed A Land Remembered continues to out sell all other Florida books. Now in its twenty-second yard, the 12th printing, it’s available in both hard and soft back. And, as of several years ago, it’s been rewritten for children and is now widely used in schools over the state. This children’s edition has been produced in two volumes, No. 1 and No. 2.

Patrick Smith is a 1999 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, the highest and most prestigious cultural honor that can be bestowed upon an individual by the State of Florida.

In May 2002 he was the recipient of the Florida Historical Society’s Fay Schweim Award as the “Greatest Living Floridian.” The one-time-only award was established to honor the one individual who has contributed the most to Florida in recent history.

Smith has been nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize, in 1973 for Forever Island, which was a 1974 selection of the Reader’s Digest Condensed Book Club and has been published in 46 countries; in 1978 for Angel City, which was produced as a “Movie of the Week” for the CBS television network and has aired worldwide; and in 1984 for A Land Remembered which was an Editor’s Choice selection of the New York Times Book Review. In the 2002 The Best Of Florida statewide poll, A Land Remembered was ranked Number One. This novel also ranked Number One in the 2001 poll. Smith’s lifetime work was nominated for the 1985 Nobel Prize for Literature, and since then he has received five additional nominations.

In 1995, he was elected by the Southern Academy of Letters, Arts and Science for its highest literary award, The Order of the South.

In October 1990 Patrick Smith received the University of Mississippi’s Distinguished Alumni Award and was inducted into the University’s Alumni Hall of Fame. In 1997, the Florida Historical Society created a new annual award, the Patrick S. Smith Florida Literature Award, in his honor.

And now there is another honor:
On Tuesday, August 1, 2006, at 6:00 p.m., the causeway at the east side of Merritt Island, southside of State Road 520, will be dedicated to Mr. Smith and will henceforth be known as the Patrick D. Smith Causeway. The Smiths live on Merritt Island.
Senator Bill Posey and the Family of Mr. Smith cordially invite the public to this special event honoring Florida’s most popular author.

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