Dave Barry

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David McAlister Barry (born July 3, 1947) is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005.

He has written numerous books of comedic and parody, as well as comic books.

The Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1988) and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (2005) are two of Barry's awards. A sense of humor, according to Barry, is "a measure of the extent to which we discover that we are trapped in a world almost devoid of reason."

We laugh because it is how we demonstrate our apprehensions over the facts."

Early life and education

Barry was born in Armonk, New York, where his father, David W. Barry, was a Presbyterian minister. He was educated at Wampus Elementary School, Harold C. Crittenden Junior High School (both in Armonk) and Pleasantville High School, where he was named "Class Clown" in 1965. In 1969, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Haverford College.

He avoided military service during the Vietnam War by registering as a religious conscient objector. Despite his father's profession, Barry decided "early" that he was an atheist. "Writing about faith puts you at the risk of offending deeply religious people, and then they come after you with machetes," he said.

Personal life

In 1969, Barry married Lois Ann Shelnutt. In 1976, he married Beth Lenox. Both Barry and Lenox worked at the Daily Local News in September 1971, where they both began their journalist careers in September 1971; they had one child, Robert, born October 8, 1980; they had one child, Robert. In 1993, Barry and Lenox divorced.

Barry's father and his youngest brother died from alcoholism in 1984, and his mother Mary Katherine was institutionalized for schizophrenia in 1987.

In 1996, Barry married Michelle Kaufman of the Miami Herald; they had a child, Sophie, who was born in 2000. Goldie, Earnest, Zippy, and now Lucy has been Barry's dog. All have been mentioned in Barry's columns on a regular basis.

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Writing career

Barry began his journalism career in 1971, serving as a general-assignment reporter for the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pennsylvania, near his alma mater, Haverford College. He covered local government and civic activities, and was promoted to City Editor after about two years. He began contributing to the paper's weekly humor column and began to develop his own style. He was a newspaper reporter from 1974 to 1974. He served briefly as a copy editor at the Philadelphia bureau of the Associated Press before joining Burger Associates, a consultancy firm.

At Burger, he taught effective writing to businesspeople. "I spent nearly eight years trying to convince various businesspeople to...stop writing things like 'Enclosed please find the enclosed enclosures,' but "eventually learned that it was hopeless."

Gene Weingarten, then editor of the Miami Herald's Sunday newspaper Tropic, wrote a humourous guest column about his son's birth in 1981. In 1983, Weingarten hired Barry as a humor columnist. Barry's column was syndicated nationally. In 1988, Barry received a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his "continuously good use of humor as a means for conveying new insight into pressing problems."

Big Trouble, Barry's first book, was published in 1999. The book was turned into a motion picture directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Tim Allen, Rene Russo, and Patrick Warburton, with a cameo by Barry (which was later deleted in post-production). The film had been scheduled to be released in September 2001 but was delayed due to the September 11, 2001, attacks because it involved smuggling a nuclear weapon inside an airplane. In April 2002, the film was released.

Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, were mocked by Barry in a column in which he blasted Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, for naming themselves the "Grand Cities" in January 2002. Barry Wellman was honored at the dedication service in Grand Forks, Canada.

In comparison to the Chicken Soup for the Soul inspirational book collection, Barry's articles have appeared in journals including Boating, Home Office Computing, and Reader's Digest. Two of his essays have been included in The Best American Sports Writing collection. One of his columns was used as the book's introduction, Pirattitude!

: So You Wanna Be a Pirate?

Here's How!

(ISBN 0-451-21649-0), a follow-up to Barry's contribution to the publicizing International Talk Like a Pirate Day. His books have often appeared on The New York Times Best Seller List.

On October 31, 2004, Barry announced that he would be taking an indefinite leave of absence from his weekly column to spend more time with his family. Barry said in an interview with Editor & Publisher in December 2005 that he would not restart his weekly column, but that he'll keep such sections as his yearly gift guide, his year-in-review feature, and his blog, as well as occasional newspaper or column.

Barry Cronkite was named Best Writer in 2005 by the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

The Fairfax Prize, the event's highest award, was given to Barry Fairfax, Virginia, on Sunday, September 22, 2013.

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