Arlo Haskell is an award-winning writer, historian, literary organizer, and publisher. Much of his work focuses on the literary and social histories of Key West, Florida. He is the author of The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969), which received the Florida Book Award Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction. Drawing on years of independent research, this is the first book to chronicle the development of South Florida’s oldest Jewish community and the first major contribution to the history of Key West since the emergence of important documents from digitization projects around the country. Admirers of The Jews of Key West include Bancroft Prize-winning historian Robert D. Richardson, who praises the book’s “fascinating and vivid detail”; and literary critic Phyllis Rose, who admires Haskell’s “dazzling breadth of vision.” Born and raised in the Florida Keys, Haskell continues to live in Key West with his wife, Ashley, and their daughters, Aviva and Zadie.