Dave Barry
Auteur de Peter and the Starcatchers
A propos de l'auteur
Dave Barry was born in Armonk, New York on July 3, 1947. He received an English degree from Haverford College in 1969. His early attempts at small-town journalism for the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pennsylvania, were directed towards local matters, such as zoning and sewage. In 1975, he afficher plus briefly attempted to teach business writing to business people. Since then, he has worked as a professional humorist. For many years he wrote a newspaper column that appeared in more than 500 newspapers and for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He is the author of numerous fiction, nonfiction, and young adult books. His novels include Big Trouble, Tricky Business, Lunatics, and Insane City. His nonfiction works include Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys, Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States, I'll Mature When I'm Dead, You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About, and Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer Is Much Faster): Life Lessons and Other Ravings from Dave Barry. His young adult books include the Starcatchers series and the Never Land series. Dave Barry's title, Best. State. Ever, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist. His recent novel, "Big Trouble," spent several months on the "New York Times" best-seller list, & his most recent nonfiction book, "Dave Barry Turns 50," was also a national best-seller. Dave lives in Miami, Florida. (Publisher Provided) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Dave Barry
Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway : A Vicious and Unprovoked Attack on Our Most Cherished Political Institutions (2001) 493 exemplaires
Dave Barry's Guide to Life (Contains: "Dave Barry's Guide to Marriage and/or Sex" / "Babies and Other Hazards of Sex" / (1987) 389 exemplaires
Escape from the Carnivale: A Never Land Book (A Peter and the Starcatchers Never Land Book) (2006) — Auteur — 384 exemplaires
Dave Barry's Money Secrets : Like, Why is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar? (2006) 356 exemplaires
Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the… (1984) 244 exemplaires
Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week (1986) 211 exemplaires
You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About (2014) 191 exemplaires
All the Dave Barry You Could Ever Want : Four Classic Books in One from America's Foremost Humorist (2001) 147 exemplaires
Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer is Much Faster): Life Lessons and Other Ravings from Dave Barry (2015) 144 exemplaires
"My Teenage Son's Goal In Life Is To Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old" and Other Thoughts On Parenting From Dave Barry (2001) 50 exemplaires
A Field Guide to the Jewish People: Who They Are, Where They Come From, What to Feed Them...and Much More. Maybe Too… (2019) 44 exemplaires
"The Greatest Invention In The History Of Mankind Is Beer" And Other Manly Insights From Dave Barry (2001) 36 exemplaires
Dave Barry Collection: Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down, Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway, and Tricky… (2004) 15 exemplaires
Peter and the Starcatchers Series (Set of 5) Starcatchers, Shadow Thieves, Secret of Rundoon, Sword of Mercy, Bridge to… (2010) — Auteur — 5 exemplaires
Insane City 2 exemplaires
Peter and the Starcatchers Set 2 exemplaires
The Worst Class Trip Ever 2 exemplaires
Swamp Story 2 exemplaires
How To Easily Speed Up My Computer 2 exemplaires
Childbirth Is Yucky 2 exemplaires
To Read This, First Open Eyes... 1 exemplaire
ממאדים וגם מנוגה 1 exemplaire
False Alarm (short story) 1 exemplaire
Dave Barry Takes on Old Man Winter 1 exemplaire
Redecorating For Under $650,000 1 exemplaire
עסקים מפוקפקים 1 exemplaire
צרות בצרורות : רומן 1 exemplaire
Passion: Men on Men {audio} — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
How To Argue Effectively 1 exemplaire
Natural Childbirth 1 exemplaire
Dave Barry, Laughs for Losers - Vinyl Record 1 exemplaire
2007: An Inconvenient Year 1 exemplaire
NCTM: "Booger" (in Naked Came the Manatee) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributeur — 452 exemplaires
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Contributeur — 246 exemplaires
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (2000) — Contributeur — 234 exemplaires
You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day (2006) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 230 exemplaires
There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (1998) — Contributeur — 210 exemplaires
Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude (1994) — Contributeur — 66 exemplaires
Peter and the Starcatcher: The Annotated Script of the Broadway Play (2012) — Introduction — 39 exemplaires
Photo du Jour: A Picture-a-Day Journey through the First Year of the New Millennium (Focus on History) (2002) — Avant-propos — 20 exemplaires
The Art of Life: An Anthology of Literature about Life and Work (1997) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Barry, David McAlister
- Date de naissance
- 1947-07-03
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Armonk, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Miami, Florida, USA
- Études
- Haverford College (B.A., English, 1969)
- Professions
- columnist
guitarist (Rock Bottom Remainders) - Organisations
- Rock Bottom Remainders (band)
The Miami Herald
Tribune Media Services - Prix et distinctions
- Pulitzer Prize (Commentary, 1988)
- Courte biographie
- The New York Times has pronounced Dave Barry "the funniest man in America." But of course that could have been on a slow news day when there wasn't much else fit to print. True, his bestselling collections of columns are legendary, but it is his wholly original books that reveal him as an American icon. Dave Barry Slept Here was his version of American history. Dave Barry Does Japan was a contribution to international peace and understanding from which Japan has not yet fully recovered. Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys is among the best-read volumes in rehab centers and prisons. Raised in a suburb of New York, educated in a suburb of Philadelphia, he lives now in a suburb of Miami. He is not, as he often puts it so poetically, making this up.
Dave's most recent books are "Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland," and "Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog." His next book, "A Field Guide To The Jewish People," which he co-wrote with his friends Adam Mansbach and Alan Zweibel, will be published September 24. Dave is not Jewish, but Adam and Alan are, so it's kosher.
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Critiques
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs par Dave Barry
Pretty much a throwaway, Barry gets in a few good lines, but the book is just so tossed-off, it almost hurts to read it. Someone could at least have given Julie London credit for being a singer (and a favorite of Bob Dylan) before she was known as an actress. Hard to argue with most of the choices, however, although some are just more silly than bad. And others were certainly not meant to be taken seriously in the first place. Also, he left out the worst song ever: I Started a Joke by the Bee Gees. "I finally died, which started the whole world living." And the rest is just as bad. (Hey, I love lots of Bee Gees songs, from throughout their career, but there is just something about the tune of this song that even without lyrics would put me in a bad mood.)… (plus d'informations)
Laugh out loud funny. A brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times–bestselling author Dave Barry. He celebrates Florida from Key West at the bottom to whatever it is that’s at the top, from the Sunshine State’s earliest history to the fun-fair of weirdness that it is today.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 97
- Aussi par
- 35
- Membres
- 34,717
- Popularité
- #544
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 903
- ISBN
- 660
- Langues
- 12
- Favoris
- 94
