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Diane Roberts is an American author, columnist, essayist, radio commentator, reviewer and professor. She is the author of three books and a documentary-maker for the

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Career

Roberts has been a commentator for NPR since 1993,"National Public Radio's profile of Diane Roberts"
Retrieved 2011-06-20 a political columnist for the ''St. Petersburg Times'', a journalist for ''The New York Times'',"Florida at the Crossroads: Five Hundred Years of Encounters, Conflicts, and Exchanges"
Retrieved 2011-06-20 ''The Guardian'', ''The Washington Post'', the ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' and the ''Orlando Sentinel''.
, Retrieved 2011-06-20 Roberts is professor of literature and writing at Florida State University and a visiting fellow in creative writing at the

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culture."The Guardian - Diane Roberts - Profile"
Retrieved 2011-06-20

Background

An eighth-generation Floridian whose family has lived in Florida since 1799, Roberts is related to numerous famous Floridians, including Florida's 19th governor

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, and L. Clayton Roberts who was director of Florida's Division of Elections during the

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. Roberts attended Brasenose College, Oxford as a

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Publications

Books * ''Dream State: Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, and other Florida Wildlife'' Free Press, 2004. * ''Faulkner and Southern Womanhood'', University of Georgia Press, 1993. * ''The Myth of Aunt Jemima'', Routledge, 1994. Sundry * Numerous articles and essays are found at "Faculty & Staff : Diane Roberts - University of Alabama". * Broadcast commentaries are found a
"Diane Robert's archive at NPR", Retrieved 2011-07-19
* Columns are found a
"The Guardian — Diane Roberts", Retrieved 2011-07-19

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