Dave Barry
Forfatter af Peter and the Starcatchers
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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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
Serier
Værker af Dave Barry
Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway : A Vicious and Unprovoked Attack on Our Most Cherished Political Institutions (2001) 489 eksemplarer
Dave Barry's Guide to Life (Contains: "Dave Barry's Guide to Marriage and/or Sex" / "Babies and Other Hazards of Sex" / (1987) 386 eksemplarer
Escape from the Carnivale: A Never Land Book (A Peter and the Starcatchers Never Land Book) (2006) — Forfatter — 377 eksemplarer
Dave Barry's Money Secrets : Like, Why is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar? (2006) 352 eksemplarer
Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the… (1984) 237 eksemplarer
Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week (1986) 209 eksemplarer
You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About (2014) 184 eksemplarer
All the Dave Barry You Could Ever Want : Four Classic Books in One from America's Foremost Humorist (2001) 146 eksemplarer
Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer is Much Faster): Life Lessons and Other Ravings from Dave Barry (2015) 136 eksemplarer
"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) 48 eksemplarer
A Field Guide to the Jewish People: Who They Are, Where They Come From, What to Feed Them...and Much More. Maybe Too… (2019) 40 eksemplarer
"The Greatest Invention In The History Of Mankind Is Beer" And Other Manly Insights From Dave Barry (2001) 35 eksemplarer
Dave Barry Collection: Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down, Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway, and Tricky… (2004) 14 eksemplarer
Dave Barry Turns 50 3 eksemplarer
Peter and the Starcatchers Series (Set of 5) Starcatchers, Shadow Thieves, Secret of Rundoon, Sword of Mercy, Bridge to… (2010) — Forfatter — 3 eksemplarer
How To Easily Speed Up My Computer 2 eksemplarer
Peter and the Starcatchers Set 2 eksemplarer
Childbirth Is Yucky 2 eksemplarer
False Alarm (short story) 1 eksemplar
ממאדים וגם מנוגה 1 eksemplar
Passion: Men on Men {audio} — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
עסקים מפוקפקים 1 eksemplar
Peter et la poussière d'étoiles (French Edition) 1 eksemplar
NCTM: "Booger" (in Naked Came the Manatee) 1 eksemplar
Dave Barry, Laughs for Losers - Vinyl Record 1 eksemplar
How To Argue Effectively 1 eksemplar
Natural Childbirth 1 eksemplar
2007: An Inconvenient Year 1 eksemplar
צרות בצרורות : רומן 1 eksemplar
To Read This, First Open Eyes... 1 eksemplar
Dave Barry Takes on Old Man Winter 1 eksemplar
Redecorating For Under $650,000 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Bidragyder — 447 eksemplarer
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Bidragyder — 238 eksemplarer
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (2000) — Bidragyder — 231 eksemplarer
You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day (2006) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 220 eksemplarer
There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (1998) — Bidragyder — 206 eksemplarer
Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude (1994) — Bidragyder — 66 eksemplarer
Peter and the Starcatcher: The Annotated Script of the Broadway Play (2012) — Introduktion — 36 eksemplarer
Photo du Jour: A Picture-a-Day Journey through the First Year of the New Millennium (Focus on History) (2002) — Forord — 19 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Barry, David McAlister
- Fødselsdato
- 1947-07-03
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Armonk, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- Miami, Florida, USA
- Uddannelse
- Haverford College (B.A., English, 1969)
- Erhverv
- columnist
guitarist (Rock Bottom Remainders) - Organisationer
- Rock Bottom Remainders (band)
The Miami Herald
Tribune Media Services - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Pulitzer Prize (Commentary, 1988)
- Kort biografi
- 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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Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of… af Dave Barry
Fairly obvious jokes in the form of a guide to winning on the corporate world. Decades ago I loved Babies and Other Hazards of Sex, and Homes and Other Black Holes. This book came out in between those two but reading it now elicited just one or two chuckles. YMMV.
½
I decided I needed to read this since we are seeing the show in San Francisco next month. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. I enjoyed every minute of it and when the book ended found myself wanting to read the next one.
The year is 1901--it's been twenty-three years since Peter and the Lost Boys returned from Rundoon. Since then, nobody on the island has grown a day older, and the Lost Boys continue their friendship with the Mollusk tribe, and their rivalry with Captain Hook.
Meanwhile in London, Molly has married George Darling and is raising three children: Wendy, Michael, and John. One night a visitor appears at her door; it's James, one of Peter's original Lost Boys. He is now working for Scotland Yard and suspects that the heir to England's throne, Prince Albert Edward, is under the influence of shadow creatures. These shadow creatures are determined to find a secret cache of starstuff which fell to London many centuries ago. The starstuff is hidden in an underground vault which has only one key: the Sword of Mercy, a legendary weapon kept with the Crown Jewels. Molly is determined to help, but when she suddenly goes missing, it is up to her eleven-year-old daughter, Wendy, to keep the starstuff out of the Others' clutches. She has heard her mother's stories of a flying boy named Peter Pan, and he may be her only hope in saving the world from a shadowy doom...… (mere)
Meanwhile in London, Molly has married George Darling and is raising three children: Wendy, Michael, and John. One night a visitor appears at her door; it's James, one of Peter's original Lost Boys. He is now working for Scotland Yard and suspects that the heir to England's throne, Prince Albert Edward, is under the influence of shadow creatures. These shadow creatures are determined to find a secret cache of starstuff which fell to London many centuries ago. The starstuff is hidden in an underground vault which has only one key: the Sword of Mercy, a legendary weapon kept with the Crown Jewels. Molly is determined to help, but when she suddenly goes missing, it is up to her eleven-year-old daughter, Wendy, to keep the starstuff out of the Others' clutches. She has heard her mother's stories of a flying boy named Peter Pan, and he may be her only hope in saving the world from a shadowy doom...… (mere)
I think I read this book much too fast. I really enjoyed the story. I would love to read it again and the whole series. Dave Barry is a very humorous writer; I remember my grandparents reading his article out loud all the time.
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- Medlemmer
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- Popularitet
- #563
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