Person · Open Library
- Born
- July 3, 1947
- Works
- 137
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature [Grade Ten]
- World Literature 1999
- Naked Came the Manatee
- Class clown
- Holt McDougal Literature--Grade 10
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1947-07-03
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 810
- Total plays
- 10,472
Tags
David "Dave" Barry (born July 3, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and columnist, who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comedic novels. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dave+Barry">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- One-step inactivation of chromosomal genes in
<i>Escherichia coli</i>
K-12 using PCR products
· 2000 · cited 13,994x
- <scp>CHARMM</scp>: A program for macromolecular energy, minimization, and dynamics calculations
· 1983 · cited 13,562x
- Click Chemistry: Diverse Chemical Function from a Few Good Reactions
· 2001 · cited 11,540x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,178x
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Quotes
- “The problem is, when Oprah lost all that weight, her head didn't get any smaller. And so she looks kind of like a person carrying a balloon.”
- “The transportation bill had over $5 billion worth of special local projects and favors attached to it, lamprey-like, by various congresspersons. But this is good, because these projects will CREATE JOBS. See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs.”
- “I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.”
- “As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.”
- “It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.”
- “What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a "modem" can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo.”
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Key facts
- Born
- David McAlister Barry , ( 1947-07-03 ) July 3, 1947 (age 78) , Armonk, New York , U.S.
- Occupation
- Humorist , Author
- Alma mater
- Haverford College ( BA )
- Spouse
- Ann Shelnutt (1969–19?) , Beth Lenox ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1976 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1993 ) , Michelle Kaufman ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1996 )
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.davebarry.com
- Image
- Dave Barry.jpg
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- Commons category
- Dave Barry
- date of birth
- 1947-07-03
- social media followers
- 67903
- name in native language
- Dave Barry
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Article
David McAlister Barry (born 3 July 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 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".