The first three were co-authored with his friend and fellow journalist William Montalbano: Powder Burn (1981), Trap Line (1982), and A Death in China (1984). Carl Hiaasen's 1991 novel Native Tongue carries the dedication 'For my brother Rob.'Īfter becoming a reporter, Hiaasen began writing novels in his spare time. His only brother was Rob Hiaasen, an editor and columnist at The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, who was killed in the mass shooting at the newspaper's office on June 28, 2018. 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. Hiaasen was a columnist for the newspaper from mid-1985 until he retired in March 2021. Hiaasen was a reporter at 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. Hiaasen graduated in 1974 with a degree in journalism. In 1972, he transferred to the University of Florida, where he wrote for The Independent Florida Alligator. 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. He started writing at age six when his father bought him a typewriter for Christmas. He was the first of four children born to Odel and Patricia Hiaasen. Hiaasen was born in 1953 and raised in Plantation, Florida, then a rural suburb of Fort Lauderdale.

Many of the novels include themes related to environmentalism and political corruption in his native state. They feature casts of eccentric, sometimes grotesque characters and satirize aspects of American popular culture. Hiaasen's adult novels are humorous crime thrillers set in Florida. Two of his novels have been made into feature films. He began his career as a newspaper reporter and by the late 1970s had begun writing novels in his spare time, both for adults and for young-adult readers. ə s ɛ n/ born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist and novelist.

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