Sandra Friend Nonfiction author and freelance travel and outdoors writer

Sandra Friend

photo credit: Rob Smith, Jr.

Author Biography

Whether slogging through Florida’s swamps in search of a ghost orchid or bouncing around in a van on the back roads of Patagonia, author Sandra Friend enjoys immersing herself in her work.
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Influences

Paul Theroux, for his sense of place and grounding in culture; Bill Bryson, for his humor; Lawrence Durrell, for painting Greece with words; Edward Abbey, for his passion; Jean Craighead George, for her tight connections with the natural world.

Favorite Books

My Side of the Mountain, The Writer's Way, In Patagonia, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bitter Lemons, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Harry Potter, The Hobbit, Desert Solitaire, Prospero's Cell

Favorite Authors

Jean Craighead George, Amy Tan, Lawrence Durrell, Pico Iyer, Paul Theroux, Edward Lear, Nevada Barr, Tim Dorsey, Carl Hiaasen, Edward Abbey, Aldo Leopold, Anne Rice, Sean Murphy, Robert Silverberg, Julia Cameron, Anne Lamont, Natalie Goldberg, Bruce Chatwin, Ian Fleming, Jane Yolen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Anne McCaffery, Randy Wayne White, James W. Hall, Archie Carr, Bill Belleville

What I'm Reading

Edge of Taos Desert, The Love Hexagon

Web Links

Sandra Friend's Blog

Purple, Rain
October 5, 2008
- Two days spent under the shadows of clouds in angry hues of purple and mint, those troublesome colors that spell "tornado warning" at dawn when even royal palms bend under the weight of wind and water. I didn't let them spoil my weekend, as I was on a mission to experience, collect, and communicate. Sheets of rain kept the crowds away for the Step Out! for Diabetes walk I came here for, ...
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Our Florida
September 28, 2008
- I am on the porch swing, absorbing time. It's another 45 minutes until Our Florida opens for their first Gallery Hop, and I'm here to lend my support. In a historic cottage in downtown Dunnellon, Florida, a quiet town at the confluence of the Withlacoochee and Rainbow Rivers, Our Florida Books & Art is chock-a-block full of art and literature devoted to my favorite subject: Florida. Jeanie's ...
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