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“The Year of the Gator” to be featured at Gulf South History & Humanities Conference

GAINESVILLE, Fla., October 11, 2019--The Florida novel “The Year of the Gator” is featured at the Gulf South History & Humanities Conference Annual Meeting October 17-19 in Pensacola, Florida.

Author Larry Schnell will participate along with three other authors on October 18 in the Murder Mysteries as Meaningful Literature presentation at the Pensacola Grand Hotel.

Author, critic and historian Dr. Robert Gold, chair of the literary section of the conference, reviewed “The Year of the Gator” for the St. Augustine Record.

“‘The Year of the Gator” is fiction at its best. Schnell’s novel has an entertaining story with interesting and credible characters and a richly described setting. It is also well-written with action, conversation and description carefully connected and balanced. The book is also thematic and satirical — critical elements too often neglected in contemporary fiction.” St. Augustine Record, 8/19/2018.

The book is available at Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, other online outlets, and select bookstores, as well as the author’s website.

Other authors presenting are Richard Outzen, newspaper publisher and author of “City of Grudges”; Lamar York, essayist, author of “Biographia Floridiana: History, Politics and Environmental Issues”; Dr. Robert Gold, author of “Dead to Rights,” “Cut of the Cross,” and “Dead and Gone: History and Colonial Flora and Fauna.”

For more information, reviews and background information on “The Year of the Gator,” please visit the author’s website, larryschnell.com.

The Gulf South History and Humanities Conference is an annual event sponsored by the Gulf South Historical Association, a consortium of Gulf South colleges and universities from the states of Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. The agenda for Thirty-seventh Annual meeting is attached.