March 12, 1953

Carl Hiaasen. (March 12, 1953) is a novelist and journalist based in Florida. He is famous for his themes debunking the powerful. He went to school at  Emory University and the University of Florida. His non fiction includes titles like:
Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World (1998) and
Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns (2001).

Hiaasen works at home and outside his door is a mat that just says: "LEAVE." He has also written books for young adults and that includes Scat (2010). We excerpt a scene in which the hero tries to return a puma cub to its mother:

The cub was still shaking from the noise of the gunfire when Nick scooped him up. There was no clawing or biting; little Scratch seemed almost relieved to be held, even by an unknown human....
With the kitten curled against his chest, NIck stood beneath the tall dead pine, trying to visualize the climb. He wanted to put the kitten as close as possible to the mother cat, ...Nick could see her silhouetted against the fog, moving closer. The cat easily weighed more than a hundred pounds, yet she darted from limb to limb as if she were light as a sparrow. There was nothing ...to do... but...wait for the cub's cries to draw the big cat nearer...

This description of a feral cub is not realistic: they might be limp with terror, but not "relieved to be held...by an unknown human". Small nick though in the big reputation Hiaasen has well earned.