Florence was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Henry Alexander Hunt, Jr. & Mathilda Emily Vance Hunt. She was the granddaughter of Principal Henry Alexander Hunt, Sr. & Florence Johnson Hunt, Fort Valley Normal & Industrial School, Fort Valley, Ga. She was preceded in death by her brothers Henry Alexander Hunt, III and Charles Wallace Hunt, Sr. Florence was a 1941 graduate of H. A. Hunt High School and 1945 graduate of Talladega College. After college Florence lived briefly in Chicago with her aunt Adele Hunt Gray, before moving to Greenwich Village where she earned a living as a model, free-lance writer, and New York State Government employee. Florence also attended New York University Graduate Theater Department, was a MacDowell Colony Fellow, Virginia Center Fellow, was founder of American Women Playwrights Association and was listed in Eugene O'Neill Playwright Directory; Women in American Theater; Lincoln Center Library for The Performing Arts Collection; and University of Wyoming's Division of Rare Books. Florence, who was never married and had no children, died at the Jewish Home & Hospital, where she lived for the last six years of her life victimized by Alzheimer's. Her cremated remains were returned to Fort Valley, GA. and interred next to her mother's grave.
Florence was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Henry Alexander Hunt, Jr. & Mathilda Emily Vance Hunt. She was the granddaughter of Principal Henry Alexander Hunt, Sr. & Florence Johnson Hunt, Fort Valley Normal & Industrial School, Fort Valley, Ga. She was preceded in death by her brothers Henry Alexander Hunt, III and Charles Wallace Hunt, Sr. Florence was a 1941 graduate of H. A. Hunt High School and 1945 graduate of Talladega College. After college Florence lived briefly in Chicago with her aunt Adele Hunt Gray, before moving to Greenwich Village where she earned a living as a model, free-lance writer, and New York State Government employee. Florence also attended New York University Graduate Theater Department, was a MacDowell Colony Fellow, Virginia Center Fellow, was founder of American Women Playwrights Association and was listed in Eugene O'Neill Playwright Directory; Women in American Theater; Lincoln Center Library for The Performing Arts Collection; and University of Wyoming's Division of Rare Books. Florence, who was never married and had no children, died at the Jewish Home & Hospital, where she lived for the last six years of her life victimized by Alzheimer's. Her cremated remains were returned to Fort Valley, GA. and interred next to her mother's grave.
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