| He’s funny. He’s clever. He’s a household
name. Art Buchwald is one of America’s great political humorists. His
unique interpretations of current events and life in contemporary times have delighted
readers as well as live audiences for decades. His twice-weekly column is syndicated
in virtually every major newspaper in the world. Art Buchwald was born in Queens, New York.
He and his sisters were raised in a series of foster homes after their mother became
unable to care for them. A child of the Depression, he worked from age nine until he
ran away at 16 and served in the U.S. Marines during World War II. After the Marines
he enrolled at the University of Southern California and eventually traveled to Paris
where he lived for 14 years.
While reading the Paris Herald Tribune, Buchwald noticed that the
paper did not have a restaurant or entertainment column. He went down and sold
himself on writing such a column, pointing out he had outstanding credentials having once
been a food taster in the Marine Corps. The column developed into a feature column
four times a week. Buchwald went to Africa, the Soviet Union, and even Hong Kong.
Paris Match once described him as
“the Charlie Chaplin of the Newspaper Business.” In 1962, Buchwald came back to
the United States and settled in Washington where things got funnier, and so did his
column.
In his legendary career,
Buchwald has written 30 books, including his latest works, Leaving Home and I’ll Always Have Paris.
An
award-winning writer, Buchwald won a Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in 1982,
and in 1987, was inducted into the Academy of Arts and Letters.
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