Dyckman, Martin A.

Martin A. Dyckman, retired associate editor of the "St. Petersburg Times", is the author of "Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins" and "A Most Disorderly Court: Scandal and Reform in the Florida Judiciary". His series on Florida prison conditions circa 1971 won the Distinguished Service Award of the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, the Silver Gavel of the American Bar Association, and the Associated Press Managing Editors Association Public Service Award. In 1984, the Florida Bar Foundation recognized his writing on judicial reform with its Medal of Honor Award....