Dave Barry was born in Armonk, New York, in 1947....
and has been steadily growing older ever since without ever
actually reaching maturity.
Dave's Life in a Nutshell
He attended public schools, where he distinguished
himself
By not getting in nearly as much trouble as he would have if the
authorities had been aware of everything. He is proud to have
been elected Class Clown by the Pleasantville High School
class
of 1965.
Barry went to Haverford College, where he was an English
major
and wrote lengthy scholarly papers filled with sentences that
even he did not understand.
He graduated in 1969 and eventually got a job with a
newspaper
named -- this is a real name -- "the "Daily Local
News,"
in West Chester, Pa., where he covered a series of incredibly
dull municipal meetings, some of which are still going on.
In 1975, Barry joined Burger Associates, a consulting
firm
that teaches effective writing to businesspersons. He spent
nearly eight years trying to get various businesspersons to for
God's
sake stop writing things like "Enclosed please find the
enclosed enclosure, " but he eventually realized that it was
hopeless.
So...
In 1983 he took a job at the "Miami Herald", and
he has been there ever since, although he never answers the
phone.
In 1988 he won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, pending
a recount. His column appears in several hundred newspapers, yet
another indication of the worsening drug crisis.
Barry has written a number of short but harmful books,
including
Babies and Other Hazards of Sex and Dave Barry
Slept
Here: A Sort of History of the United States. His books,
including Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys and Dave Barry
Turns 40, have been hailed by the critics as
"containing a
tremendous amount of white space."
The CBS television series "Dave's World" is based
on two of Barry's books. Also, he owns a guitar that was once
played by Bruce Springsteen.
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