Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen plays the trick I admire most in writers. A Fort Lauderdale native and University of Florida grad, he started as a newspaperman watching his home state get strip-mined by greed and grifters, then channeled that fury into wickedly funny crime novels instead of dry editorials. His Florida is swampy, sun-baked, and full of con artists, and he weaponizes humor to actually defend the place he loves. The 1992 Dilys Award and his work for younger readers show a writer with range, but it's the journalist's eye paired with a satirist's mischief that gets me. I am a sucker for that kind of poison wit.

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Name (English)

Carl Hiaasen

Name (Japanese)

カール・ハイアセン

Reading

かーる・はいあせん

Born

March 12, 1953 (age 73)

Origin

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Occupation

writer / novelist / children's writer / journalist / young adult author

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Snake

High school

Plantation High School

University

University of Florida

Awards & achievements

• 1992 Dilys Award
• 2005 Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award

• Official sitehttps://www.carlhiaasen.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carl_hiaasen/
• Xhttps://x.com/Carl_Hiaasen
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Hiaasen
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726177

Tags

• Florida
• writer
• novelist
• children's writer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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