Carl Hiaasen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Carl Hiaasen
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Mar 12, 1953(1953-03-12)
Age	71
Birthplace	Fort Lauderdale
Country	United States
Birth City	Florida
Horoscope	Pisces

Carl Hiaasen Biography

Carl Hiaasen is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on March 12, 1953 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. American journalist, novelist, and Newbery Medal-winning author for children’s fiction. His most well-known works are Double Whammy and Native Tongue.

Striptease was his adult novel. It was made into a movie starring DemiMoore.

Carl Hiaasen (/ˈ h aɪ . ə s ɛ n / ; born March 12, 1953) is an American writer. A long-time columnist for the Miami Herald and Tribune Content Agency, Hiaasen has also written more than 20 novels which can generally be classified as humorous crime fiction and often feature themes of environmentalism and political corruption in his native Florida. He began his career as a news reporter and by the late 1970s had begun writing novels in his spare time. In 2002, he also started publishing books for young readers. Two of his novels have been made into feature films.

He was a reporter at Cocoa Today (Cocoa, Florida) for two years before being hired in 1976 by the Miami Herald, where he worked for the city desk, Sunday magazine and award-winning investigative team. Since 1985 Hiaasen has been a regular columnist for the newspaper. His columns have been collected in three published volumes, Kick Ass (1999), Paradise Screwed (2001) and Dance of the Reptiles (2014), all edited by Diane Stevenson.

He was born in Plantation, Florida. He married Fenia Clizer in 1996 after his 26-year marriage to Connie Lyford. He is the father of Quinn and Scott.

Carl Hiaasen Net Worth

Carl Hiaasen is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carl Hiaasen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He graduated from the University of Florida and joined the Miami Herald’s reporting staff. He worked with a friend journalist on three novels in the 1980s: Powder Burn, A Death in China and Trap Line.

Hoot, his first book for children, won the Newbery Medal. Later, it was made into a movie.

Hiaasen was born in 1953 and raised in Plantation, Florida, then a rural suburb of Fort Lauderdale. He was the first of four children born to Odel and Patricia Hiaasen. He has Norwegian and Irish ancestry. He started writing at age six when his father bought him a typewriter for Christmas After graduating from Plantation High School in 1970, he entered Emory University, where he contributed satirical humor columns to the student-run newspaper The Emory Wheel. In 1972, he transferred to the University of Florida, where he wrote for The Independent Florida Alligator. Hiaasen graduated in 1974 with a degree in journalism.

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Who is Carl Hiaasen Dating?

According to our records, Carl Hiaasen married to Kaitlyn Fox , Fenia Clizer , Connie Lyford. As of December 1, 2023, Carl Hiaasen’s is not dating anyone.

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His most recent novel for adults, Razor Girl, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in September 2016, and opened at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. In England it was short-listed for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse award for comic fiction. His new novel, Squeeze Me, will be published in August 2020.

Facts & Trivia

Carl Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Carl Hiaasen celebrates birthday on March 12 of every year.

His only brother Rob Hiaasen, an editor and columnist at The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, was killed in a mass shooting at the newspaper’s office on June 28, 2018. Carl Hiaasen’s 1991 novel Native Tongue bears the dedication “For my brother Rob.”

What is Carl Hiaasen most famous for?

Hiaasen is best known for his fiction, particularly his young adult novel “Hoot” and his adult crime novel “Strip Tease.” He is also well-known for the time he spent as a columnist for “The Miami Herald,” which was for over 30 years.

What is the order of Carl Hiaasen books?

• The Carl Hiaasen Omnibus (1994) Stormy Weather / Lucky You (2003)
• Tourist Season / Double Whammy (2004) Sick Puppy / Skin Tight (2004)
• The Carl Hiaasen Omnibus 2 (2005) Lucky You / Sick Puppy (2006)
• Hoot / Flush / Scat / Chomp / Squirm (2020) Squeeze Me / Razor Girl / Bad Monkey (2022)

What did Carl Hiaasen write?

Since then, Hiaasen has published Skin Tight, Native Tongue and eleven national bestsellers – Strip Tease, Stormy Weather, Lucky You, Sick Puppy, Basket Case, Skinny Dip, Nature Girl, Star Island, Bad Monkey, Razor Girl, and his latest, Squeeze Me , which opened at #2 on the New York Times Bestseller List.

How old is Carl Hiaasen?

69 years (March 12, 1953)

Who is skink based on?

Clinton Tyree , a.k.a. Skink, is a fictional character who has appeared in several novels by Carl Hiaasen, beginning with Double Whammy in 1987. He is a former governor of Florida who suddenly abandoned his office to live in the wilderness, most often the Everglades and, later, the Florida Keys.