Kleinberg Lecture

October 2003

Eliot Kleinberg Lecture and Reception  

Sunday, October 26, 4:00 p.m.
Smathers Library Special Collections Research Room

Eliot Kleinberg, Florida author and reporter for the Palm Beach Post, will speak about his latest book, Black Cloud, The Great Florida Hurricane of 1928, a new narrative history of the hurricane that devastated the Okeechobee area. The book details the storm’s fateful track, forecasters’ failure to properly predict its landfall, personal battles against nature’s wrath and the extraordinary suffering of a black citizenry forced to provide a disproportionate amount of rebuilding labor while enduring the burial of friends and family.

An autographing session will follow the talk. Kleinberg, son of the storied Florida reporter, Howard Kleinberg, has written or contributed to six books, all of them focusing on Florida and Florida’s history: Pioneers in Paradise, Florida Fun Facts, Historical Traveler’s Guide to Florida, Weird Florida, War in Paradise, and Our Florida.

Kleinberg received his bachelor of science degree in journalism in 1977 and a bachelor of science in broadcasting  in 1978 from the University of Florida.

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