Carl Hiaasen
Autor(a) de Hoot
About the Author
Carl Hiaasen was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on March 12, 1953. He received a degree in journalism from the University of Florida in 1974. He has been a reporter and columnist for the Miami Herald since 1976, and is known for exposing scandal and corruption throughout southern Florida. He has mostrar mais received numerous state and national honors for his journalism and commentary including the Damon Runyon Award from the Denver Press Club. His work has also appeared in numerous magazines including Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Time, Life, Esquire and Gourmet. His best-selling novels include Double Whammy, Skin Tight, Native Tongue, Stormy Weather, Lucky You, Sick Puppy, Basket Case, Nature Girl and Razor Girl. His 1993 novel, Striptease, was adapted as a film in 1996 starring Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds. He also writes children's books including Hoot, which was awarded a Newbery Honor; Flush; and Scat. Hoot was adapted into a film in 2006. His non-fiction works include Team Rodent; The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport; and two collections of his newspaper columns entitled Kick Ass and Paradise Screwed. In 2013 his titles Chomp and Bad Monkey made The New York Times bestseller list. In 2014, his non-fiction title Dance of the Reptiles made it to the New York Times bestseller list. Skink - No Surrender made the New York Times bestseller list in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Séries
Obras por Carl Hiaasen
Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled… (2014) 115 exemplares
Still life 3 exemplares
Lucky You / Nature Girl / Skinny Dip 2 exemplares
Strip Tease - Recorded Books 1 exemplar
Sick Puppy / Basket Case / Skinny Dip 1 exemplar
Double Whammy, Star Island 1 exemplar
Nature Girl [Abridged] 1 exemplar
Think Twice Before You Flush Kit 1 exemplar
The Striptease 1 exemplar
Basket Case / Lucky You / Native Tongue 1 exemplar
Sick Puppy / Skinny Dip 1 exemplar
Associated Works
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon (2007) — Prefácio — 334 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Hiaasen, Carl
- Data de nascimento
- 1953-03-12
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
- Locais de residência
- Florida Keys, Florida, USA
Plantation, Florida, USA - Educação
- University of Florida (Journalism|1974)
Emory University - Ocupações
- columnist (Miami Herald)
reporter
novelist - Relações
- Hiaasen, Rob (brother)
- Organizações
- The Miami Herald
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Damon Runyon Award (2003-2004)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Summer Reading (1)
Page Turners (1)
To Read List (1)
Newbery Adjacent (2)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 73
- Also by
- 12
- Membros
- 55,379
- Popularidade
- #268
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 1,597
- ISBN
- 869
- Línguas
- 17
- Marcado como favorito
- 194