02146cam a2200421 i 4500 2197583821 TxGeo 20250502120000.0 250506s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781668021781 hbk. 1668021781 hbk. TxGeo rda Barry, Dave, author. Class clown : the memoirs of a professional wiseass : how I went 77 years without growing up / Dave Barry. Memoirs of a professional wiseass. Memoirs of a professional wise-ass. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2025. ix, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "How does the son of a Presbyterian minister wind up winning a Pulitzer Prize for writing a wildly inaccurate newspaper column read by millions of people? In Class Clown, Dave Barry takes us on a hilarious ride, starting with a childhood largely spent throwing rocks for entertainment--there was no Internet--and preparing for nuclear war by hiding under a classroom desk. After literally getting elected class clown in high school, he went to college, where, as an English major, he read snippets of great literature when he was not busy playing in a rock band (it was the sixties). ... [This] isn't just a memoir; it's a ... celebration of a life rich with humor, absurdity, joy, and sadness"-- Provided by publisher. 20250509. Barry, Dave. Journalists United States Biography. Humorists, American 20th century Biography. Novelists, American 20th century Biography. Armonk (N.Y) Biography. Miami (Fla) Biography. Florida Biography. Autobiographies. Humor. QS5