If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

Hiaasen's young adult novels follow the theme of environmental issues. Hiaasen lives in Vero Beach Florida. He was a reporter for Cocoa Today (Cocoa Florida) for two years beginning in 1974 and then was hired by the Miami Herald in 1976 where he still works.

: /ˈhaɪ. əsɛn/; born March 12 1953) is an American journalist columnist and novelist. Carl Hiaasen (pron.