Eliot Kleinberg

The deadly hurricane of 1928 claimed 2500 lives, and the long-forgotten story of the casualties, as told in Black Cloud, continues to stir passion. Among the dead were 700 black Floridian men, women, and children who were buried in an unmarked West Palm Beach ditch during a racist recovery and...

Another man was sent to fight in the Civil war in your place. Do you care? You were forced to go to war for another man. How do you get revenge? Merritt Moran is on a train. The bottle in his cloak is empty. His clothes stink. He can’t clear his mind of the woman from his past. The woman in...

In 1998, Weird Florida made the bold statement that Florida “is the home of more nuttiness per square mile than any place on earth - and we dare the world to prove us wrong”. A few tried. California comes to mind, but no one came close....

The first and original! In 1995, lifelong Florida resident and award-winning journalist Eliot Kleinberg was the first to produce a book-length chronicle of his home state's weirdness - and he's not making it up! "Any time you jam descendants of slaves, rednecks, Indians, con artists...

War in Paradise is a collection of articles about the impact of World War II on the Sunshine State....