Carl Hiaasen
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About
American novelist, journalist, and Newbery Medal-winning author of children's fiction. His best-known works include Double Whammy, Native Tongue, and Sick Puppy.
Before Fame
After graduating from the University of Florida, he joined the reporting staff of the Miami Herald. In the early 1980s, he collaborated with a journalist friend on the writing of three novels: Powder Burn, A Death in China, and Trap Line.
Trivia
His first children's book, Hoot, received the Newbery Medal and was later adapted into a movie.
Family Life
He grew up in Plantation, Florida. After his twenty-six year marriage to Connie Lyford ended in 1996, he wed Fenia Clizer. He has two sons, Quinn and Scott. He and Clizer divorced in 2019. He married Kaitlyn Fox in 2020.
Associated With
He wrote the adult novel, Striptease, which was made into a film starring Demi Moore.
