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American author and columnist (born 1947)

For other people named Dave Barry, see Dave Barry (disambiguation).

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.

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Dave Barry has been a professional humorist ever since he discovered that professional humor was a lot easier than working.

Dave Barry is a humor columnist for the Miami Herald.

Barry, easily America`s most preposterous newspaper columnist, weaves a weekly tapestry of mangled facts, ludicrous propositions and penetrating.

He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children's novels. Barry's honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1988) and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (2005).

Barry has defined a sense of humor as "a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge."^[2]

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