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Hoot Author Biography

Carl Hiaasen was born near Fort Lauderdale in Plantation, Florida, on March 12, 1953. His parents, a lawyer and a teacher, also had three other children. He earned a degree in journalism from the University of Florida, and he joined the Miami Herald as a reporter in 1976. Hiaasen eventually became an investigative reporter for the paper and began a regular column in 1985 discussing local issues, especially those centered on the environment, land development, and political corruption. During this time, he co-wrote three mystery novels with his friend and fellow journalist Bill Montalbano. Those books were Powder Burn (1981), Trap Line (1982), and A Death in China (1984).

Hiaasen's first solo novel, Tourist Season, was published in 1986. The book—about a group of eco-terrorists who try to save the Florida Everglades by murdering tourists, which they hope will ruin the state's tourist trade—was a commercial success, and it...
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