Carl Hiaasen
Auteur van 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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Fotografie: Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
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Werken van Carl Hiaasen
Dance of the Reptiles: Rampaging Tourists, Marauding Pythons, Larcenous Legislators, Crazed Celebrities, and Tar-Balled… (2014) 116 exemplaren
Still life 3 exemplaren
Lucky You / Nature Girl / Skinny Dip 2 exemplaren
Basket Case / Lucky You / Native Tongue 1 exemplaar
The Striptease 1 exemplaar
Think Twice Before You Flush Kit 1 exemplaar
Sick Puppy / Basket Case / Skinny Dip 1 exemplaar
Strip Tease - Recorded Books 1 exemplaar
Nature Girl [Abridged] 1 exemplaar
Stormy Weather / Basket Case / Native Tongue / Nature Girl / Skinny Dip / Tourist Season 1 exemplaar
Double Whammy, Star Island 1 exemplaar
Sick Puppy / Skinny Dip 1 exemplaar
Gerelateerde werken
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon (2007) — Voorwoord — 336 exemplaren
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Hiaasen, Carl
- Geboortedatum
- 1953-03-12
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Florida Keys, Florida, USA
Plantation, Florida, USA - Opleiding
- University of Florida (Journalism|1974)
Emory University - Beroepen
- columnist (Miami Herald)
reporter
novelist - Relaties
- Hiaasen, Rob (brother)
- Organisaties
- The Miami Herald
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Damon Runyon Award (2003-2004)
Leden
Besprekingen
Lijsten
Summer Reading (1)
Page Turners (1)
To Read List (1)
Newbery Adjacent (2)
Prijzen
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 74
- Ook door
- 12
- Leden
- 55,591
- Populariteit
- #265
- Waardering
- 3.7
- Besprekingen
- 1,597
- ISBNs
- 869
- Talen
- 17
- Favoriet
- 194