Daniel J. Denton founded Sarasota Magazine in 1979 and went on to own similar city magazines in Santa Barbara, CA and Naples, FL. A Florida native and Yale graduate in English, he was honored with induction into the Hall of Fame of the Florida Magazine Association in 2010. A full-time Sarasota resident, he sold the magazine in 2015 and currently owns Winter Park Magazine and other titles based in Orlando, FL.