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Florida crackers
Florida memories
Harry Crews
John DeGrove
journalism
journalist
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Miami Herald columnist
the real Florida
Virgil Hawkins
Zora Neale Hurston
Product details
- ISBN 9780813033853
- Weight: 381g
- Dimensions: 149 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2009
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Al Burt worked as a journalist for forty-five years, the last twenty-two at the Miami Herald. The recipient of numerous journalism awards, he has been a freelance contributor to many magazines, including The Nation and Historic Preservation, and is the author of several books, among them Florida: A Place in the Sun, Becalmed in the Mullet Latitudes, and Al Burt's Florida: Snowbirds, Sand Castles, and Self-Rising Crackers, which was awarded the 1998 Patrick D. Smith Florida Literature Book Award. In his honor, the 1,000 Friends of Florida established the annual Al Burt Award for Florida journalism.
