Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen is a Florida journalist and novelist, a longtime Miami Herald columnist known for satirical crime novels that skewer South Florida corruption, real-estate greed, and environmental destruction, often with a comic, absurdist edge -- titles like Tourist Season, Skinny Dip, and Bad Monkey (adapted for television by Apple TV+) are among his best known. He has also written acclaimed novels for younger readers, including the Newbery Honor-winning Hoot. In this catalogue he appears only as one of thirteen contributors to Naked Came the Manatee (1996), a round-robin novel serialized in the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine, with each chapter written by a different South Florida crime writer, including Edna Buchanan, Elmore Leonard, and Dave Barry -- a novelty project reflecting the tight-knit Miami crime-writing scene of the era rather than his solo body of work, which sits outside this catalogue's scope.