Dave Barry
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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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Achtung, vierzig, los. Die komischen Erlebnisse eines Mannes in den besten Jahren (1990) 608 Exemplare
Dave Barry's Guide to Life (Contains: "Dave Barry's Guide to Marriage and/or Sex" / "Babies and Other Hazards of Sex" / (1987) 389 Exemplare
Escape from the Carnivale: A Never Land Book (A Peter and the Starcatchers Never Land Book) (2006) — Autor — 385 Exemplare
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 Exemplare
Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week (1986) 211 Exemplare
You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About (2014) 190 Exemplare
All the Dave Barry You Could Ever Want : Four Classic Books in One from America's Foremost Humorist (2001) 147 Exemplare
Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer is Much Faster): Life Lessons and Other Ravings from Dave Barry (2015) 144 Exemplare
"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 Exemplare
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 Exemplare
"The Greatest Invention In The History Of Mankind Is Beer" And Other Manly Insights From Dave Barry (2001) 36 Exemplare
Dave Barry Collection: Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down, Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway, and Tricky… (2004) 15 Exemplare
Peter and the Starcatchers Series (Set of 5) Starcatchers, Shadow Thieves, Secret of Rundoon, Sword of Mercy, Bridge to… (2010) — Autor — 5 Exemplare
Insane City 2 Exemplare
Peter and the Starcatchers Set 2 Exemplare
The Worst Class Trip Ever 2 Exemplare
Swamp Story 2 Exemplare
How To Easily Speed Up My Computer 2 Exemplare
Childbirth Is Yucky 2 Exemplare
To Read This, First Open Eyes... 1 Exemplar
ממאדים וגם מנוגה 1 Exemplar
False Alarm (short story) 1 Exemplar
Dave Barry Takes on Old Man Winter 1 Exemplar
Redecorating For Under $650,000 1 Exemplar
עסקים מפוקפקים 1 Exemplar
צרות בצרורות : רומן 1 Exemplar
Passion: Men on Men {audio} — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
How To Argue Effectively 1 Exemplar
Natural Childbirth 1 Exemplar
Dave Barry, Laughs for Losers - Vinyl Record 1 Exemplar
2007: An Inconvenient Year 1 Exemplar
NCTM: "Booger" (in Naked Came the Manatee) 1 Exemplar
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For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Mitwirkender — 452 Exemplare
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Mitwirkender — 246 Exemplare
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (2000) — Mitwirkender — 234 Exemplare
You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day (2006) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 230 Exemplare
There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (1998) — Mitwirkender — 210 Exemplare
Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude (1994) — Mitwirkender — 66 Exemplare
Peter and the Starcatcher: The Annotated Script of the Broadway Play (2012) — Einführung — 39 Exemplare
Photo du Jour: A Picture-a-Day Journey through the First Year of the New Millennium (Focus on History) (2002) — Vorwort — 20 Exemplare
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Barry, David McAlister
- Geburtstag
- 1947-07-03
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Armonk, New York, USA
- Wohnorte
- Miami, Florida, USA
- Ausbildung
- Haverford College (B.A., English, 1969)
- Berufe
- columnist
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- Rock Bottom Remainders (band)
The Miami Herald
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- Pulitzer Prize (Commentary, 1988)
- Kurzbiographie
- 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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Das Buch, mit dem ich Dave Barry kennengelernt habe. 1997 war das echt lusig. Damals war der deutsche Humor noch nicht so weit entwickelt.
Ein unterhaltsamer, leicht zu lesender und vielleicht auch etwas seichter Kriminalroman im typisch amerikanischen Umfeld aber mit einigen skurrilen Charakteren, die das Buch - zB als Ferienbuch in praller Sonne - in einigen Lebenssituationen durchaus lesenswert machen.
Man nehme fünf Waisenjungen, einen finsteren Bösewicht, der die Jungen an einen gemeinen indischen König verschachern will, ein heruntergekommenes Segelschiff, einen geheimnisvollen Schatz, ein königliches Kriegsschiff, eine hübsche und mutige junge Dame, einen finsteren Piraten nebst blutrünstiger Mannschaft und eine tropische Insel mit einem Haufen gefährlicher Wilder, verknüpfe das Ganze geschickt und heraus kommt die unglaublich fantasievolle Geschichte, wie aus einem vom Schicksal gebeutelten Jungen Peter Pan wurde.… (mehr)
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