David Turner-Time Warner, former residents of Sarasota who gained fame as an author, entrepreneur and larger-than-life patron of the arts, recently died at his home in Lochloosa. He was 63.
He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on November 25, 1948, and became a sapling of wealthy and influential family in Alabama. He uses his wealth and position to support the arts, the University of Alabama where he graduated in 1971 and Stetson University in DeLand.
Warner sponsored creative class at Stetson, which attracts artists who achieved, provocative and sometimes interfere with their way of making art. The long list includes graphic novelist, National Book Award winner, composer, and Poet Laureate.