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 P.J.
O'Rourke
With more than a million words of trenchant journalism under
his byline and more citations in The Penguin Dictionary of Humorous
Quotations than any other living writer, P.J. O'Rourke has established
himself as America's premier political satirist. His best-selling
books include Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance, Eat
the Rich, The CEO of the Sofa , Peace Kills and On the
Wealth of Nations. Both Time and The Wall Street
Journal have called him “the funniest writer in America.”
He frequently appears on television, and is a regular panelist
on National Public Radio’s Wait,
Wait, Don’t Tell Me.
Whether
dealing with the inner workings of Washington bureaucracy, the
shifting political and economic sands of the new world order
or his own living room, P.J. proves himself to be a savvy guide
to national and world affairs. His razor sharp insights never
fail to inform and entertain, and audiences may be in peril
of injury from laughter.
Patrick
Jake O'Rourke was born in Toledo, Ohio, son of a car salesman
and dance instructor. He began life as a Republican, but in
the late 1960's he changed his politics to conform to the rest
of the nation’s youth. He says, “At least I was never a liberal.
I went from Republican to Communist and right back to Republican.”
P.J. attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and graduate
school at Johns Hopkins where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
After receiving an M.A. in English, he worked at small newspapers
in Baltimore and New York.
In
the early 1970’s, P.J. joined The National Lampoon where
he became the editor-in-chief and created, with Doug Kenney,
the now classic 1964 High School Yearbook Parody. In
the 1980’s, he decided the real world was funnier than anything
National Lampoon’s writers could invent, so he became
a roving reporter covering crises and conflicts around the world.
P. J. O’Rourke is the best-selling author of fourteen previous
books.
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