Christopher Buckley

Fortune Magazine calls Christopher Buckley "the quintessential political novelist of his time." He has also been called "the best social satirist of his day" and "the best political satirist of his generation."

Mr. Buckley was born in New York City in 1952 and graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1976. He shipped out in the Merchant Marine and at age 24, became managing editor of Esquire magazine. At age 29, he became chief speechwriter to the Vice President of the United States, George H. W. Bush.

Since 1989, he has been founder and editor-in-chief of Forbes FYI Magazine.

He is the author of ten books, five of them national bestsellers, and all of them named by The New York Times as Notable Books of the Year. His novels include The White House Mess, Wet Work, Thank Your For Smoking, God Is My Broker, Little Green Men, and No Way To Treat A First Lady.

Thank You For Smoking was chosen by People magazine and by USA Today as one of the ten best books of 1994. His books have been translated into over a dozen foreign languages, including Japanese, Korean and Russian.

He has contributed over 50 comic essays to The New Yorker magazine. His
journalism, satire and criticism have been published in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New Republic, Washington Monthly, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Esquire, and in many other publications.

Joseph Heller called Buckley "an effervescent joy." John Updike described him as "the last of the funny writers, a Benchley with WordPerfect." Tom Wolfe has called him "one of the three funniest writers in the English language."

He is the recipient of the 2002 Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence.

Christopher Buckley's novella, Field of Screams, may be the funniest piece of satire to have emerged from his inspired wit so far. Every two years, he teaches a writing workshop at The Buckley School of Written Expression. (See www.buckleyschool.com)