Christopher Buckley

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Christopher Taylor Buckley (born 1952) is an American political satirist and author of several novels. He is the son of William F. Buckley, Jr.. His novels include God Is My Broker, Thank You For Smoking: A Novel, Little Green Men, The White House Mess, No Way to Treat A First Lady, Wet Work and, most recently, Florence of Arabia.

After a classical education at the Portsmouth Abbey School, Buckley, like his father, graduated from Yale University, as a member of Skull and Bones. He became managing editor of Esquire Magazine and later worked as the chief speechwriter for Vice President George H. W. Bush. This experience led to his novel The White House Mess, a satire on White House office politics. (The title refers to the White House lunchroom, which is known as the "mess" because the Navy operates it.)

Thank You For Smoking: A Novel is another satire, its protagonist a lobbyist for the tobacco industry, Nick Naylor. He followed that with more humor about Washington in the form of Little Green Men, about the government agency investigating UFO sightings, which turns out it really is a government conspiracy led by a Strom Thurmond-like U.S. Senator. His No Way To Treat A First Lady has the president's wife on trial for assassinating her husband and Florence of Arabia is about a do-gooding State Department bureaucrat in the Middle East. His one serious novel, Wet Work, is about a father avenging his daughter's death from drugs.

Thank You for Smoking has been adapted into a movie written and directed by Jason Reitman starring Aaron Eckhart. It was released on March 17, 2006.

Buckley also wrote the non-fiction Steaming To Bamboola, about the merchant marine, and is an editor at Forbes Magazine.

He has two children from his marriage and a son with a former mistress.

Contents

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Satirical Novels

[edit] Films based on Buckley's novels

[edit] Travelogues

  • Steaming to Bamboola - The World of a Tramp Freighter (1983)
  • Washington Schlepped Here: Walking in the Nation's Capital (2003)

[edit] Other

  • My Harvard, My Yale (1981) (contributor, segment "Stoned in New Haven") (university biography)
  • Campion: A Play in Two Acts (1990) (written with James Macguire) (play)
  • Wet Work (1991) (serious novel)
  • Wry Martinis (1997) (short story collection)

[edit] External links

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