Bio

Since beginning his career at CNN in New York, Shawn Bean has become an award-winning author and nationally recognized magazine writer. He has twice been named Writer of the Year by the Florida Magazine Association (2004 and 2006), and serves as senior editor of Florida Travel + Life. He is also a judge for the Florida Book Awards, and a recent addition to the Florida Humanities Council’s Scholar Directory. His literary debut The First Hollywood, published by the University Press of Florida, won the 2008 Florida Book Award and was one of UPF’s best-selling titles of the year. A year and a half later, he released Black Sunshine, an e-book of short stories.

Bean is currently executive editor of Babytalk, the parenting magazine with a readership of 5 million, and authors the monthly fatherhood column ‘Pop Culture.’ He lives in Melbourne, Florida, with wife Brandy and two young sons: Jackson, 6, and Tanner, 3.

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Stephanie Williams

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To contact the author directly, please email shawnbean@mac.com.