- Carl Hiaasen graduated from the University of Florida's School of Journalism in 1974. He has written many books, including "Tourist Season", "Double Whammy" and "Striptease", all crime/mystery books that take place in south Florida. In between writing books, Hiaasen writes a regular column for the Miami Herald. He's also a big fan of Warren Zevon.
He sang backup on a Jimmy Buffett song, "The Ballad of Skip Wiley", which is based on Hiassen's book "Tourist Season". He recently wrote his first book for young adults, "Hoot".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anne Henmi (qv's & corrections by A. .Nonymous)
- SpousesFenia Clizer(1999 - present) (1 child)Connie Lyford(1970 - 1996) (divorced, 1 child)
- Tends to kill off characters in his novels in very creative ways
- His brother Robert Hiaasen, journalist, editor and Sunday feature columnist at the Capital Gazette was killed by gunfire in that newspaper attack in Annapolis on 28 June 2018.
- For most of his adult life, he lived in a stilt house in the Florida Keys. Rather than drive to the Miami Herald building in Miami, he communicates with Herald headquarters by phone, fax, and modem.
- Hiaasen grew up in Plantation, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale that was, at the time, the westernmost fringe of civilization in south Florida, literally on the edge of the Everglades. As he watched Florida being settled by thousands of newcomers every year and watched his beloved background turn into asphalt, he began to write furious diatribes about the destruction of the Florida wilderness. Hiaasen based his popular fictional character, Clinton "Skink" Tyree, on his boyhood friend Clyde Ingalls, who committed suicide at the age of 17, partly in grief about the devastation of his homeland.
- His last name is pronounced HI-uh-suhn.
- Wears a fishing hat and noise-suppression earmuffs while writing.
- Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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