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Carl Hiaasen

Author of Hoot

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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 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) — biography from Hoot… (more)
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Works by Carl Hiaasen
Hoot 8,261 copies, 258 reviews
Skinny Dip 4,436 copies, 142 reviews
Flush 3,690 copies, 100 reviews
Sick Puppy 3,067 copies, 60 reviews
Nature Girl 2,731 copies, 72 reviews
Basket Case 2,586 copies, 58 reviews
Stormy Weather 2,441 copies, 51 reviews
Lucky You 2,329 copies, 43 reviews
Strip Tease 2,283 copies, 42 reviews
Tourist Season 2,229 copies, 40 reviews
Scat 2,183 copies, 91 reviews
Native Tongue 2,034 copies, 36 reviews
Skin Tight 2,010 copies, 32 reviews
Double Whammy 1,958 copies, 39 reviews
Bad Monkey 1,630 copies, 96 reviews
Chomp 1,519 copies, 73 reviews
Star Island 1,394 copies, 76 reviews
Razor Girl 816 copies, 49 reviews
Skink--No Surrender 730 copies, 34 reviews
Squeeze Me 694 copies, 56 reviews
Naked Came the Manatee (Contributor) 660 copies, 18 reviews
Team Rodent : How Disney Devours the World 490 copies, 17 reviews
The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport 357 copies, 9 reviews
Squirm 351 copies, 16 reviews
Trap Line 311 copies, 4 reviews
Powder Burn 281 copies, 10 reviews
Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen 270 copies, 3 reviews
Kick Ass: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen 264 copies, 1 review
A Death in China 234 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 (Editor & Introduction) 183 copies, 5 reviews
Assume the Worst: The Graduation Speech You'll Never Hear 127 copies, 8 reviews
Tourist Season / Double Whammy / Skin Tight 111 copies, 2 reviews
Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous… 107 copies, 8 reviews
The Edible Exile 49 copies, 1 review
Native Tongue / Striptease 39 copies, 2 reviews
Sick Puppy / Skin Tight 38 copies, 2 reviews
Stormy Weather / Lucky You 38 copies
Tourist Season / Double Whammy 24 copies, 1 review
Lucky You / Basket Case / Double Whammy 20 copies, 1 review
Native Tongue / Striptease / Stormy Weather 20 copies
Flush by Carl Hiaasen (August 14,2007) 18 copies
Fairway to Hell 18 copies
Lucky You / Sick Puppy 12 copies, 1 review
Flush 10 copies
Hoot / Flush / Scat / Chomp 9 copies
Skin Tight / Native Tongue 5 copies
Squirm (Author) 4 copies
Carl Hiaasen Collection: Hoot, Flush, Scat 3 copies
Tourist Season / Striptease 3 copies, 1 review
Still life 3 copies
Basket Case / Double Whammy / Lucky You / Native Tongue / Sick Puppy /… 3 copies
Skink No Surrender[SKINK NO SURRENDER][Library Binding] 2 copies, 1 review
Sick Puppy / Skin Tight / Stormy Weather 2 copies
Stormy Weather / Tourist Season / Strip Tease 2 copies, 1 review
Mortifications (ROBERTSON) 2 copies
Lucky You / Nature Girl / Skinny Dip 2 copies
By Carl Hiaasen - Double Whammy (1/30/89) 1 copy
Sumpfblüten 1 copy
Think Twice Before You Flush Kit 1 copy
Skin Tight (05) by Hiaasen, Carl [Paperback (2005)] 1 copy, 1 review
Strip Tease - Recorded Books 1 copy
Basket Case / Lucky You / Native Tongue 1 copy
Hiaasen 5-Book Trade Paperback Box Set: Hoot; Flush; Scat; Chomp; Squirm 1 copy
Wrecker 1 copy
Sick Puppy / Skinny Dip 1 copy
Sick Puppy / Basket Case / Skinny Dip 1 copy
Stormy Weather / Basket Case / Native Tongue / Nature Girl / Skinny Dip /… 1 copy
Double Whammy, Star Island 1 copy
Nature Girl [Abridged] 1 copy
Tourist Season / Double Whammy / Strip Tease / Stormy Weather / Lucky You… 1 copy
The Law of the Jungle [chapter in Naked Came the Manatee] 1 copy
Skinny Dip / Flush / Nature Girl / Scat / Star Island 1 copy
Biscane bay 1 copy
Forfulgt af held 1 copy
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Also by Carl Hiaasen
Cinnamon Skin (Introduction, some editions) 885 copies, 12 reviews
A Deadly Shade of Gold (Introduction, some editions) 883 copies, 12 reviews
The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Introduction, some editions) 846 copies, 17 reviews
The Empty Copper Sea (Introduction, some editions) 826 copies, 9 reviews
Darker Than Amber (Introduction, some editions) 825 copies, 8 reviews
The Long Lavender Look (Introduction, some editions) 783 copies, 11 reviews
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (Contributor) 435 copies, 4 reviews
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon (Foreword) 322 copies, 18 reviews
Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (Contributor) 288 copies, 4 reviews
Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places (Contributor; Contributor) 102 copies
Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy (Contributor) 68 copies
Striptease [1996 film] (Author) 30 copies
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1953-03-12
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Plantation, Florida, USA
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Florida Keys, Florida, USA
Plantation, Florida, USA (birth)
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University of Florida (Journalism | 1974)
Emory University
Occupations
columnist (Miami Herald)
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novelist
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Hiaasen, Rob (brother)
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The Miami Herald
Awards and honors
Damon Runyon Award (2003-2004)
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