WPA Artists and Writers in Florida

Interviewee

• Bill Dudley, Florida Humanities Council
• Nance Frank
• Stetson Kennedy
• Margaret Gibbons Wilson
• Alan Jabbour

Files

Publication Date

2-2004

Abstract

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) created jobs and fostered activity in the arts and letters. Included in the segment are mentions of Stetson Kennedy, Zora Neale Hurston, and William Hoffman.

Keywords

Artist colonies, Heritage tourism, Folklore, Zora Neale Hurston, Literature, New Deal (1933-1939), United States. Works Progress Administration, Stetson Kennedy

Extent

00:05:37; 4 page transcript

Subject: geographic

Monroe County (Fla.); Key West (Fla.)

Language

English

Digital Date

2026

Media Type

Audio recordings

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

fhc_audio-1034

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Dudley, Bill; Frank, Nance; Kennedy, Stetson; Wilson, Margaret Gibbons; and Jabbour, Alan, "WPA Artists and Writers in Florida" (2004). Florida Humanities Audio Archive. 35.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/fhc_audio/35