carl hiaasen was born and raised in florida, where he still lives.
a graduate of the university of florida, at age 23 he joined the miami herald as a reporter for the municipal section and went on to work for the paper’s weekly magazine and award-winning investigative team.
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from 1985 to 2021 he wrote a regular opinion column, which at one time or another criticized almost every major politician in the state, and occasionally his own bosses. one of hiaasen’s proudest moments came when a miami city commissioner, enraged by the columns, filed a resolution to officially denounce him.
Hiaasen began writing novels in the early 1980s with his good friend and fellow journalist, the late William D. Montalbano. They collaborated on three mystery thrillers: Powder Burn, Trap Line, and Death in China, which drew heavily on her journalistic experiences.
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tourist season, published in 1986, was hiaasen’s first solo novel. GQ magazine called it “one of the 10 best destination reads of all time,” though it failed to scare away a single Florida tourist. Her next effort, Double Whammy, was the first (and possibly only) novel ever written about sex, murder, and corruption on the professional bass fishing tour.
Since then, Hiaasen has released Skin Skinny, Mother 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 her latest, Squeeze Me, which was #2 on the New York Times Best Seller list. All of the novels are set in Florida, where they read more like documentaries than fiction.
hiaasen is also responsible for several popular novels for young readers: his first, hoot, won a newbery award and was made into a film starring brie larson, luke wilson and logan lerman. It was directed by Wil Shriner and produced by Jimmy Buffett and Frank Marshall. buffett plays a teacher in the film, while the author himself makes an awkward cameo for which he has deservedly received exactly 35 cents in acting royalties.
hiaasen’s other books for young readers include flush, scat, chomp and skink, which introduced one of his wildest characters to a teenage audience. His latest middle-grade novel, Squirm, takes place in both Florida and Montana, an entire state with half the population of Miami-Dade County.
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In addition to novels, Hiaasen is the author of several non-fiction books. The first, Team Rodents, is a tongue-in-cheek but unrelenting tirade against the Disney empire and its hold on American culture. in 2008 he wrote The Downhill Lie, chronicling his ill-advised return to the sport of golf after a “much-needed” hiatus of 32 years.
in 2018 published assume the worst: the commencement speech you’ll never hear, which was illustrated by artist roz chast, whose work appears regularly in the new yorker.
Together, hiaasen’s books have been published in 34 languages, 33 more than you can read or write. The London Observer has called him “America’s greatest satirical novelist,” while Janet Maslin of the New York Times has compared him to Preston Sturges and S.J. perelmann
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