Tim Gilmore

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Tim Gilmore is an English professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ) and an author. He founded the JaxbyJax Literary Arts festival and posts on his website Jaxpsychogeo.com.[1] He has written poetry, fiction, and non-fiction books on subjects including the history of Jacksonville, Eartha White,[2] violent crime, island squatter Rollians Christopher, Virginia King, and Ottis Toole.

He conducted a phone interview of Ku Klux Klan bombing survivor and author Donal Godfrey.

He is married to fellow FSCJ English professor Jo Carlisle and has two daughters.[2]

Tim Gilmore has two websites, jaxpsychogeo.comand tim-gilmore.com.

Books[edit]

  • Ghost Story / Love Song: A Collection Of Clues
  • Discarded Windows: Scenes Dreamt In Old Glass
  • Flights of Crows, Poems, 2002-2006
  • Fear, No More
  • This Kind of City: Ghost Stories and Psychological Landscapes
  • Murder Capital, 8 Stories 1890s - 1980s[3]
  • Channeling Anna Fletcher; a nonfiction novel
  • Repossessions: Mass Shootings in Baymeadows
  • Goat Island Hermit; The State of Florida vs. Rollians Christopher
  • Central Florida Schizophrenia (Everything Buried Will Rise)
  • The Ocean Highway At Night
  • Ghost Compost: Strange Little Stories[4]

Fiction[edit]

  • The Book of Isaiah: A Vision of the Founder of a City, illustrated by Shep Shepard

Non-fiction[edit]

  • The Devil in the Baptist Church: Bob Gray's Unholy Trinity
  • In Search of Eartha White: Storehouse for the People
  • The Mad Atlas of Virginia King
  • Stalking Ottis Toole: A Southern Gothic, he also adapted it as a play and it was staged at FSCJ[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Lit Chat With Tim Gilmore". Jacksonville Public Library. October 8, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Staff Writer. "One of Us: FSCJ professor Tim Gilmore has written a new biography of Eartha White". The Florida Times-Union.
  3. ^ Delaney, Bill. "Tim Gilmore's new book chronicles FL's 'Murder Capital'". www.thejaxsonmag.com.
  4. ^ Sims, Madeline. "LibGuides: Faculty Authors: Florida State College at Jacksonville: G". guides.fscj.edu.
  5. ^ Delaney, Article by Bill. "Tim Gilmore brings the 'Mad Atlas' to the stage". www.thejaxsonmag.com.