Shawn Bean

Shawn Bean

Shawn Bean has twice been named Writer of the Year by the Florida Magazine Association (2004 and 2006). He is an award-winning journalist who has covered many subjects including Club Fed, the famous minimum-security penitentiary in the Florida Panhandle, and the KL Group, responsible for the largest financial fraud in Palm Beach County history.

Bean holds a degree in film from Southern Methodist University, and is a regular contributor to Florida Travel & Life, Miami, Palm Drive, Florida International Magazine, and Baltimore Magazine.

Shawn is the author of "The First Hollywood: Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking", a history of the establishment of the original capital of the American film industry in Jacksonville, Florida. strong>The First Hollywood’s release marks the 100th anniversary of the first film ever made in Florida ("Love in the Everglades", 1908).