Carl Hiaasen
Autor/a de Hoot
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Sèrie
Obres de Carl Hiaasen
Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled… (2014) 113 exemplars
Still life 3 exemplars
Lucky You / Nature Girl / Skinny Dip 2 exemplars
Strip Tease - Recorded Books 1 exemplars
Sick Puppy / Basket Case / Skinny Dip 1 exemplars
Double Whammy, Star Island 1 exemplars
Nature Girl [Abridged] 1 exemplars
Stormy Weather / Basket Case / Native Tongue / Nature Girl / Skinny Dip / Tourist Season 1 exemplars
Think Twice Before You Flush Kit 1 exemplars
The Striptease 1 exemplars
Basket Case / Lucky You / Native Tongue 1 exemplars
Sick Puppy / Skinny Dip 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places (1994) — Col·laborador; Col·laborador — 105 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Hiaasen, Carl
- Data de naixement
- 1953-03-12
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Florida Keys, Florida, USA
Plantation, Florida, USA - Educació
- University of Florida (Journalism|1974)
Emory University - Professions
- columnist (Miami Herald)
reporter
novelist - Relacions
- Hiaasen, Rob (brother)
- Organitzacions
- The Miami Herald
- Premis i honors
- Damon Runyon Award (2003-2004)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Summer Reading (1)
To Read List (1)
Page Turners (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 73
- També de
- 12
- Membres
- 55,152
- Popularitat
- #271
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 1,592
- ISBN
- 869
- Llengües
- 17
- Preferit
- 194