Carl Hiaasen is best known as the author of eleven novels, including the best-selling Sick Puppy and Skinny Dip, Carl also writes a popular weekly column for The Miami Herald, where he has established himself as one of the country's outstanding investigative journalists.

A three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, Carl Hiaasen has written over 1,300 pieces for The Miami Herald exposing land corruption scams, drug smuggling rings, dangerous doctors, and corrupt politicians. And since real life in South Florida is often stranger than fiction, none of these subjects are spared in his novels. Carl's fiction uses intelligence and humor to skewer the greedy and the corrupt, combining mystery plotlines, wicked satire, sharp observations, and a bizarre cast of characters.

With his insight and his killer instinct for stories, Carl has certainly earned the respect of his contemporaries. Dave Barry, his colleague at The Herald, calls him “one of South Florida's most vital natural resources, a relentlessly sane voice in a howling hurricane of hypocrisy, hokum and hype.” The New York Times compares him to Preston Sturges, Woody Allen, and S.J. Perelman, and The London Observer calls him “America's finest satirical novelist.”

“At this point in his career as a comic novelist, Carl Hiaasen did not need to get any better. He has long been writing smart, fizzy Florida escapades that are pure reading pleasure. But [his recent work] is something more: a screwball delight so full of bright, deft beautifully honed humor that it places Mr. Hiaasen in the company of Preston Sturges, Woody Allen, and S.J. Perelman…”

- Janet Maslin, New York Times