Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up

"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"--