The main plot of Hoot is an ecological thriller/mystery of sorts centering on endangered burrowing owls. Hiaasen's novels so I decided to jump on the bandwagon and see what it's all about. He is slowly but surely devouring each of Mr. I must note though that I read this with my eleven year old and his enthusiasm was pretty contagious. Hiaasen's children's book debut, and although it appears targeted for the middle-grade children's crowd, I as an adult thoroughly enjoyed it. He lives in the Florida Keys.I give thanks for authors like Carl Hiaasen who write stories that strengthen our youth's conscience and awareness of environmental matters. Hiaasen divorced Connie in 1996 and remarried in 1999 to Fenia Clizer, a restaurant manager, he has one son from his first marriage and another from his second. MacDonald and Travis McGee, but aged another 20 years and viewed with a more satiric or sardonic eye.

Hiaasen's Florida is that of greedy businessmen, corrupt politicians, dumb blondes, apathetic retirees, intellectually challenged tourists, and militant ecoteurs. His novels have been classified as 'environmental thrillers' and are usually found on the crime shelves in bookshops, although they can just as well be read as mainstream satires of contemporary life. Hiaasen's fiction mirrors his concerns as a journalist and Floridian. After Montalbano became a foreign correspondent, Hiaasen wrote his first book, Tourist Season (1986) - introducing many of his distinctive styles and themes. He co-wrote three thrillers with fellow-journalist Bill Montalbano ( Powder Burn (1981), Trap Line (1981), A Death In China (1986)). From 1985 he has had a column in the Herald, intially thrice-weekly it now appears once a week.Įventually, in the 1980s, he embarked on a career as a novelist. From 1979 he turned to investigative journalism, concentrating on construction and property development - exposing schemes to destroy, for profit's sake, Florida's natural beauty.

In 1972 he transferred to the University of Florida, graduating in 1974 with a degree in journalism.Īfter two years as a reporter for Cocoa Today out of Cocoa, Florida, he joined the Miami Herald in 1976, where he still (as of 2004) works.

He married Connie Lyford just after high-school graduation and entered Emory University in 1970. Carl Hiaasen (born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist and novelist.īorn and raised in Plantation, Florida (near Fort Lauderdale), Carl was the first of four chldren and the son of a lawyer, Odel.

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