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The Miami Herald is an American daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida. [3] Founded in 1903, it is the fifth-largest newspaper [ 4 ] in Florida, serving Miami-Dade, Broward , and Monroe counties.
Kick Ass is the first of three books which highlight some of Carl Hiaasen's best columns in the newspaper Miami Herald. It was published in 1999, and followed by Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns (2001) and Dance of the Reptiles (2014). The editor, Diane Stevenson, selected columns that focused on Hiaasen's views on growth and government in ...
Nixon Smiley (August 17, 1911 – 1990) was an American reporter, columnist, and feature writer for the Miami Herald who wrote various books. Smiley was born in Orange Park, Florida and was raised by his maternal grandparent after losing both parents by the age of 7. He grew up hearing tales of the St. Johns River. [1]
David McAlister Barry (born July 3, 1947) is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children's novels.
Carl Hiaasen (/ ˈ h aɪ. ə s ɛ n /; born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist and novelist.He began his career as a newspaper reporter and by the late 1970s had begun writing novels in his spare time, both for adults and for middle grade readers.
Hines was first hired at the Miami Herald in 1966, as a library file clerk for the newsroom. [1] [3] Beginning in 1967, she took classes at Miami-Dade Community College, where she wrote for the college paper. [4] She was encouraged by Fred Shaw and others at the Miami Herald to major in journalism. [9] [8]
The novel centers on a faded soul singer whose early-onset Alzheimer's disease compels him to reconnect with his father and son. Pitts's third book, Forward from This Moment: Selected Columns, 1994–2008, was published in August 2009. It is a selection of his columns from the Miami Herald.
Big Trouble is Barry's first full-length novel, after several years as a columnist for the Miami Herald, and after publishing several humorous non-fiction books.In his dedication, Barry credited his editor at Putnam Publishing, Neil Nyren, with proposing that Barry write a novel, "and made it sound like a lot of fun...