Innate & raised within Plantation, Florida (near Fort Lauderdale), Carl was a 1st of tetrad tikes & the boy of an attorney, Odel & teacher, Patricia. He married Connie Lyford good fallowing high-senior high school graduation & entered Emory University in 1970. Inside 1972 he transferred to the University of Florida, graduating inside 1974 by owning the degree in journalism.

When deuce years as a newsman for Cocoa In todays world away from Cocoa, Florida, he joined the Miami Herald in 1976, where he however (as of 2004) works. From either 1979 he turned to investigative journalism, concentrating on construction & property development – exposing schemes to kill, for profits's sake, Florida's natural beauty. From either 1985 he has experienced the column in the Herald, at the start thrice-weekly it at present appears another time the week.

Yet, in the Eighties, he start up the career as a novelist. He co-wrote trinity thrillers sustaining fellow-journalist Bill Montalbano (Powder Burn (1981), Trap Line (1981), A Dying inside China (1986)). When Montalbano became the foreign correspondent, Hiaasen wrote his 1st book, Tourist Season (1986) – introducing many of his distinctive styles & themes.

Hiaasen's fiction mirrors his concerns as a journalist & Floridian. His novels keep around been classified when "environmental thrillers" & come unremarkably uncovered on the crime shelves in bookstore, although it may even when well exist as see as mainstream satires of contemporary life.

Hiaasen's Florida is that of greedy business community, corrupt politicians, dumb blondes, apathetic retired person, intellectually challenged holidaymaker, & militant ecoteurs. These are a equivalent Florida of John D. MacDonald and Travis McGee, but aged another 20 years and viewed with a more satiric or sardonic eye.

Critics keep around complained that Hiaasen's operate is fundamentally a equivalent novel repeated ad nauseam, sole using different characters. Sure as shooting a plots in the novels seem to watch a familiar line: beautiful a share of Florida is threatened by corporate baddies, enigmatic hero saves the day – however a startling diversity & quirks of the characters to a higher degree produce higher for any deficiency of imagination in the creator's plots.

Hiaasen divorced Connie inside 1996 & remarried inside 1999 to Fenithe Clizer, a eating house manager. He has 1 boy from either either his 1st marriage & a 2nd from his second.

Bibliography

Fiction

Tourist Season (1986) Double Whammy (1987) Skin Tight (1989) Native Tongue (1991) Strip Tease (1993) (filmed in 1996 when Striptease by Andrew Bergman, starring Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds) Stormy Weather (1995) Lucky You (1997) Sick Puppy (2000) Basket Case (2002) Hoot (2002) (young adult novel) Skinny Dip (2004) Flush (2005) (young adult novel)

By having Bill Montalbano Powder Burn (1981) Trap Line (1982) A Death in China (1984)

Non-fiction

Team Gnawer: How else Disney Devours the World (1998) Kick Ass (1999) Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns (2001)

Awards

Hoot has won two a Newbery Honor from either a Association for Library Service to Toddlers & won the 2005 Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award, selected for the latter honor by school-age children (grades 4-8) in the U.S. State of Illinois.

Other Florida-based crime fiction writers

James W. Hall John D. MacDonald Les Standiford Charles Willeford Laurence Shames Tim Dorsey