The author at age 3, in a glass bottom boat with his father at Silver Springs

Ken Breslauer grew up in Boynton Beach and Delray Beach and now lives in West Palm Beach. He graduated from the University of West Florida with a Communications Degree and earned a Master's Degree in Historic Preservation at Goucher College in Baltimore. For over 30 years he has served as the Media Director and Track Historian at Sebring International Raceway. He has written several books, and his history of the famed I2 Hours of Sebring race earned him the Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association Book of the Year Award. Breslauer's book Historic Sites and Architecture of St. Petersburg Florida received an award for preservation education from St. Petersburg Preservation. An avid collector of Floridana, his next books will focus on Florida souvenirs.