Christopher Buckley

Christopher Buckley
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<B>Christopher Buckley</B> was born in New York City in 1952. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey, worked on a Norwegian tramp freighter and graduated cum laude from Yale. At age 24 he was managing editor of Esquire magazine; at 29, chief speechwriter to the Vice President of the United States, George H.W. Bush. He was the founding editor of <I>Forbes FYI</I> magazine (now <I>ForbesLife</I>), where he is now editor-at-large. <br><br> He is the author of fifteen books, which have translated into sixteen languages. They include: <I>Steaming To Bamboola, The White House Mess, Wet Work, God Is My Broker, Little Green Men, No Way To Treat a First Lady, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, Losing Mum And Pup: A Memoir</I> and <I>Thank You For Smoking</I>, which was made into a movie in 2005. Most have been named <I>New York Times</I> Notable Books of the Year. <br><br> He has written for the <I>New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal</I>, the <I>New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, New York Magazine</I>, the <I>Washington Monthly, Forbes, Esquire, Vogue, Daily Beast</I>, and other publications. <br><br> He received the Washington Irving Prize for Literary Excellence and the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He lives in Connecticut.

Books By Christopher Buckley (3 Books)

Boomsday
Losing Mum and Pup
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