Be sure to get your ticket to see Dave Barry at TODAY'S Fall Convocation/Baird Lecture.
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Tickets are available for the 2011 Fall Convocation and Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture featuring Dave Barry – Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 3:30 P.M. in Alumni Gym
Tickets are free with your Phoenix Card and $12 for all others at the Center for the Arts Box Office
Box Office hours: 12:30 p.m. – 5 p.m., Monday-Friday
About Dave Barry
The only humor writer to win journalism’s top award, Dave Barry won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1988 “for his consistently effective use of humor as a device for presenting fresh insights into serious concerns.”
A native of Armonk, N.Y., Barry began his journalistic career as a reporter for the West Chester, Pa., Daily Local News shortly after his 1969 graduation from Haverford College. He once wrote that he decided to go into the newspaper business because as an English major he had experience “writing long, authoritative-sounding essays without any knowledge of my topic, which is of course the essence of journalism.”
A guest column he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer caught the eye of an editor in Miami, and in 1983, Barry relocated to South Florida to work as a humor columnist for The Miami Herald. He soon captured readers’ attention with his funny, yet insightful, life observations. By the time he ended the weekly feature in 2005, more than 500 newspapers carried his column. In retirement, Barry continues to blog for the Herald and write occasional articles, including his popular annual holiday gift guide and year in review columns.
Barry has written or contributed to dozens of books and compilations. His first novel, Big Trouble, was made into a 2002 major motion picture, and the CBS comedy “Dave’s World” in the mid-1990s was based on two of his books. His latest book, I’ll Mature When I’m Dead, provides a candid exploration of adulthood from Barry’s perspective and covers topics like becoming a new father, self-image, dealing with celebrities, the battle of the sexes, vampires and social media.
The previous three convocations have sold out so get your tickets now.