Pulitzer-winning author Dave Barry reads at Malaprop’s, May 8

Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Dave Barry has written Worst Class Trip Ever, a new book for 9-12 year-olds, but all age readers are invited to his just-announced event at Malaprop’s. The store will have his adult books available, too.

“Dave Barry has been a professional humorist ever since he discovered that professional humor was a lot easier than working,” says his bio. “For many years he wrote a newspaper column that appeared in more than 500 newspapers and generated thousands of letters from readers who thought he should be fired.” See? Humor. Info about Barry’s new book follows.

Press release from Malaprop’s:

WORST CLASS TRIP EVER, A Novel
By Dave Barry

In this hilarious novel, written in the voice of eighth-grader Wyatt Palmer, Dave Barry takes us on a class trip to Washington, DC. Wyatt, his best friend, Matt, and a few kids from Culver Middle School find themselves in a heap of trouble?not just with their teachers, who have long lost patience with them?but from several mysterious men they first meet on their flight to the nation?s capital. In a fast-paced adventure with the monuments as a backdrop, the kids try to stay out of danger and out of the doghouse while trying to save the president from attack? Or maybe not.

Dave Barry has been a professional humorist ever since he discovered that professional humor was a lot easier than working.  For many years he wrote a newspaper column that appeared in more than 500 newspapers and generated thousands of letters from readers who thought he should be fired. Despite this, Barry won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, although he misplaced it for several years, which is why his wife now keeps it in a secure location that he does not know about.