Dave Barry

Dave Barry is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005, earning the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1988. He has written many books of humor and parody, along with comic novels such as Big Trouble, a Florida thriller full of slapstick and danger. With Ridley Pearson he wrote the Peter and the Starcatchers series of fantasy adventure novels, and he has also written children's novels.