Randy Wayne White


Randy Wayne White is an American writer of crime fiction and non-fiction adventure tales. He has written New York Times best-selling novels and has received awards for his fiction and a television documentary. He is best known for his series of crime novels featuring the retired NSA agent Doc Ford, a marine biologist living on the Gulf Coast of southern Florida. White has contributed material on a variety of topics to numerous magazines and has lectured across the United States. A resident of Southwest Florida since 1972, he lives on Sanibel Island, where he is active in South Florida civic affairs and owns the restaurant Doc Ford's Sanibel Rum Bar & Grill.

Biography

White was born in Ashland, Ohio, and spent his early life on a small farm outside Pioneer, Ohio. His summers were spent in Rockingham, North Carolina, his mother's hometown. In the 1960s his family moved to Davenport, Iowa, where White attended Davenport Central High School and competed in baseball, football, and springboard diving. After graduating in 1968, he spent time in travel before settling in Southwest Florida in 1972. After "traveling" for five years after high school, White worked for the Fort Myers News-Press for four years during which time he obtained a captain's license. He then bought a used charter boat and operated as a light-tackle fishing guide at the Tarpon Bay Marina on Sanibel Island for thirteen years.

Fiction by "Carl Ramm"

  1. Sanibel Flats
  2. The Heat Islands
  3. The Man Who Invented Florida
  4. Captiva
  5. North of Havana
  6. The Mangrove Coast
  7. Ten Thousand Islands
  8. Shark River
  9. Twelve Mile Limit
  10. Everglades
  11. Tampa Burn
  12. Dead of Night
  13. Dark Light
  14. Hunter's Moon
  15. Black Widow
  16. Dead Silence
  17. Deep Shadow
  18. Night Vision
  19. Chasing Midnight
  20. Night Moves
  21. Bone Deep
  22. Cuba Straits
  23. Deep Blue
  24. Mangrove Lightning
  25. Caribbean Rim
  26. Salt River
  1. Gone
  2. Deceived
  3. Haunted
  4. Seduced

    Non-fiction