At the time of his death Stetson Kennedy was one of the oldest living Florida authors. He was born on October 5, 1916 in Jacksonville, Florida, and died on August 27, 2011.
Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups. While undercover in the Klan, he provided information about secret code words and details of Klan rituals to the writers of the Superman radio program.