GABLES WINE &
WORDS Patrick@GablesWine.com
My name is Patrick Alexander and for the past thirty years I have lived
in Coral Gables, Miami, Florida where, among other things, I teach wine
appreciation classes – hence the name of this site, GablesWine.com. I am
also a writer.
My latest book, released in September 2023 is called
BOOMER
and tells the story of the ‘Baby Boom’ generation: it’s about ‘old folk’
like me, who’ve lived through eight decades and crossed over two
centuries and two millennia. It’s a fun and fascinating story!
Other recent books include Building
Paradise,
the history of Miami and South Florida, and
The Booklovers’ Guide to Wine
which is based on the wine classes I have taught for almost twenty
years.
Additional books include three novels set in a fictionalized, and not
very well disguised version of Coral Gables – entitled The
Greenhaven Trilogy.
My first book, back in 2007, Marcel
Proust’s Search for Lost Time,
was a study of the French novelist Marcel Proust, and in June 2022 I released A
Dance to Lost Time
comparing Proust’s seven volume novel In Search of Lost Time,
with Anthony Powell’s twelve volume novel A Dance to the Music of
Time. I am currently in the process of recording all my works as audiobooks for Audible. When not writing, teaching, or sounding-off to the Miami Herald, I conduct historic tours for the Coral Gables Museum and the famous Biltmore Hotel as well as maintaining order as starter on the historic Granada Golf Course.
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