Christopher Buckley

Biography

Christopher Buckley

Christopher
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 twelve books, most of them national
bestsellers. They have been translated into sixteen foreign
languages, including Russian, Korean and Indonesian. They include:
THE WHITE HOUSE MESS, WET WORK, THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, GOD IS MY
BROKER, LITTLE GREEN MEN, NO WAY TO TREAT A FIRST LADYand FLORENCE
OF ARABIA. THANK YOU FOR SMOKING has been made into a major motion
picture starring Aaron Eckhart, Robert Duvall, William Macy, Rob
Lowe, Adam Brody and Katie Holmes. His novel LITTLE GREEN MEN is
being made into a move starring John Malkovich and will be directed
by Whit Stillman.

Mr. Buckley has contributed over 60 comic essays to The New
Yorker magazine. His journalism, satire and criticism has been
widely published --- in The New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, Washington Post, New
Republic, Washington Monthly, Vanity Fair,
Vogue, Esquire, and other publications. He is the
recipient of the 2002 Washington Irving Medal for Literary
Excellence. In 2004 he was awarded the Thurber Prize for American
Humor.