Carl Hiaasen
Carl Hiaasen [pronounced "hiya-sun"] (born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist and novelist.
Born and raised in Southern Florida, he graduated from the University of Florida in 1974 with a degree in journalism. Since 1976, he has been a journalist with the Miami Herald, where he has a weekly column. Quite early in his career, he turned to investigative journalism, for example exposing schemes to destroy, for profit's sake, Florida's natural beauty. Eventually, in the 1980s, he embarked on a career as a novelist. Hiaasen's fiction mirrors his concerns as a journalist and Floridian. 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. He lives in the Florida Keys.
Hiaasen's Florida is that of greedy businessmen, corrupt politicians, dumb blondes, apathetic retirees, intellectually challenged tourists, and militant ecoteurs. It is the same Florida of John D. MacDonald and Travis McGee, but aged another 20 years and viewed with a more satiric or sardonic eye.
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