Carl Hiaasen
Autore di Hoot
Sull'Autore
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 altro 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 meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Serie
Opere di Carl Hiaasen
Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled… (2014) 115 copie
Still life 3 copie
Strip Tease - Recorded Books 1 copia
Double Whammy, Star Island 1 copia
Nature Girl [Abridged] 1 copia
Think Twice Before You Flush Kit 1 copia
The Striptease 1 copia
Sick Puppy / Skinny Dip 1 copia
Opere correlate
La sirena reticente - Il Giallo Mondadori n. 1105 (1966) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 853 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Hiaasen, Carl
- Data di nascita
- 1953-03-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Florida Keys, Florida, USA
Plantation, Florida, USA - Istruzione
- University of Florida (Journalism|1974)
Emory University - Attività lavorative
- columnist (Miami Herald)
reporter
novelist - Relazioni
- Hiaasen, Rob (brother)
- Organizzazioni
- The Miami Herald
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Damon Runyon Award (2003-2004)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Summer Reading (1)
Page Turners (1)
To Read List (1)
Newbery Adjacent (2)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 73
- Opere correlate
- 12
- Utenti
- 55,384
- Popolarità
- #268
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 1,597
- ISBN
- 869
- Lingue
- 17
- Preferito da
- 194