![]() 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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