Dave Barry

Dave Barry is an American humorist and novelist, a longtime Miami Herald columnist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1988 for his syndicated humor column. Alongside decades of comic nonfiction, he has written comic novels including Big Trouble (adapted into a film) and, with fellow novelist Ridley Pearson, the Peter and the Starcatchers series of Peter Pan prequels for younger readers. 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, Carl Hiaasen, and Elmore Leonard -- 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.