Bernard Diederich

[3] Diederich studied in England in the early postwar years after having participated in World War II in the Pacific.

In 1949, Diederich started a sailing trip with two friends that brought him to Haiti, a country that since stayed close to his heart.

[4] In Port-au-Prince, he founded and edited the Haiti Sun, a weekly English newspaper about Haitian events.

Two years later, after having displeased Haiti's dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, he was briefly imprisoned and expelled.

[6] The author continued to publish after retirement with the focus on the political and historical developments in the Caribbean, notably in Haiti.