As a well-traveled journalist, Bernard Diederich witnessed and even participated in countless events important to Caribbean and Central American history. His papers and media collection provides invaluable sources in history, political science, international relations, and journalism pertaining to Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, and Cuba. Diederich is a New Zealand native who in 1949 docked in Haiti, where he decided to stay and publish an independent, English newspaper, the Haiti Sun. He worked as a correspondent for Time LIFE, the Associated Press, the New York Times, and the Daily Telegraph, and has written more than a dozen books, such as Papa Doc: The Truth about Haiti Today (1969), Trujillo: Death of the Goat (1978), Somoza and the Legacy of U.S. Involvement in Central America (1989) and, most recently, Seeds of Fiction: Graham Greene's Adventures in Haiti and Central America 1954-1983 (2013).
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