WWW.ELIOTKLEINBERG.COM WWW.PEACERIVERBOOK.COM Eliot Kleinberg has completed his first fiction effort, Peace River, a historical novel based at the end of the Civil War. He is that rarest of Floridians: a native. Born in South Florida, he has spent 35 years in both broadcast and print news, including a quarter century at the Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach. In addition to covering local news for the Post, he also writes extensively about Florida and Floridiana. He has published 10 books, all focusing on Florida, including Black Cloud, a 75th anniversary book on the great 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane; two Weird Florida books, and Palm Beach Past and Wicked Palm Beach, both collections of his weekly local history column in the Post that's run for a dozen years.Eliot was born in Coral Gables in 1956, graduated the Miami-area public schools in 1974, and received two degrees from the University of Florida. He is a member of the Florida, South Florida and Palm Beach County historical societies. Eliot and his wife Debra are parents of two adult sons and live at Casa Floridiana in Boca Raton, Florida.