He lived for many years in the picturesque historic town of Melrose, Florida, until declining health dictated a move to the larger city of Jacksonville not long before his death.
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Florida author David Nolan said he used to buy the Herald just so he could read Al Burt's column.
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Al Burt (1927 – November 29, 2008) was a widely beloved Florida author and longtime journalist with The Miami Herald.
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The first authoritative book on the subject was Papa Doc: Haiti and its Dictator by Al Burt and Bernard Diederich, published in 1969, though several others by Haitian scholars and historians have appeared since Duvalier's death in 1971.