Al Burt's Florida
Snowbirds, Sand Castles, and Self-Rising Crackers
By Al Burt
SERIES:
Florida History and Culture
University Press of Florida
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Al Burt worked as a journalist for 45 years, the last 22 of which he spent as a roving Florida columnist for the <i>Miami Herald</i>. The recipient of numerous journalism awards, he has been a freelance contributor to many magazines, including <i>The Nation</i> and <i>Historic Preservation</i>, and is the author of several books, among them <i>Florida: A Place in the Sun</i> (1974) and <i>Becalmed in the Mullet Latitudes</i> (1984). In his honor, the 1,000 Friends of Florida established the annual Al Burt Award for Florida journalism.
