author
Theodore Pratt
1901–1969
Best known for vivid novels set in Florida, this prolific American writer turned the state’s boom years, backroads, and coastal legends into lively fiction. His most famous book, The Barefoot Mailman, helped cement his reputation as a distinctive regional storyteller.
2 Audiobooks
The Hohokam Dig
by Theodore Pratt
Shades of Davy Crockett
by Theodore Pratt
About the author
Born in Minneapolis in 1901, Theodore Pratt later lived in New York, where he studied and worked as a reporter before building his writing career. He eventually settled in Florida, and that landscape became the heart of his fiction.
Pratt published more than 30 novels, along with short stories, plays, and other work, and several of his stories were adapted for film. He is especially remembered for novels rooted in Florida life, including The Barefoot Mailman, and for writing under the pseudonym Timothy Brace on some mystery books.
He spent much of his later life in Lake Worth, Florida, where he continued to write until his death in 1969. His work is still noted for its strong sense of place and for the way it captured Florida during years of rapid change.