Writers Center Stage

Christopher Buckley

Ohio Theatre • 11.3.09 • 7:30 PM

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Political satirist and bestselling author Christopher Buckley is the author of twelve books, including the novels The White House Mess, Little Green Men,
and Thank You for Smoking.

Fortune magazine has declared Buckley, “the quintessential political novelist of his time” and author Tom Wolfe has called him, “One of the funniest writers in the English language.”

Biography

Online Biography of Christopher Buckley

Brief biography from Greater Talent Network.

Websites

The National Review: "A Eulogy for My Father"

A son’s moving remembrance of his famous father.

The Daily Beast:
Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama+Buckley Bows Out of National Review

A political conservative, Christopher Buckley does the unthinkable: he
comes out in support of the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama.
Fallout follows immediately.

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: On "Supreme Courtship"

Skilled interviewer Charlie Rose gets Buckley talking candidly about
the memoir he wrote after losing both parents in less than a year.
(Video 29 min.)

Yale University: Class of 2009 Commencement Speech

Buckley returns to Yale’s commencement podium in 2009,
making witty amends for his first appearance there as a
graduating senior in 1975. (Video 29 min.)

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Works by Christopher Buckley

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Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir

(2009) Nonfiction
Buckley’s most recent work chronicles his efforts to cope
with the passing of his mother, Patricia Buckley, and father,
author William F. Buckley.

Also in CD Book and Large Print

Supreme Courtship

(2008) Fiction
When a television judge ends up on the Supreme Court,
romance and the fate of a presidential election take
center stage in this comic political satire.

Also in CD Book and Large Print

(2007) Fiction
Inciting a culture war when she suggests that baby boomers should
be given government incentives to commit suicide, 29-year-old blogger
and political malcontent Cassandra Devine catches the attention of an
ambitious senator seeking the presidency, with whom she launches a
campaign during which euthanasia is a forefront issue.

Also in CD Book and Large Print

Florence of Arabia

(2004) Fiction
A comic thriller about a philandering Arab emir who, to placate
his wife, allows her to start a TV network for Arab women.
Florence Farfarletti has a plan for female emancipation in the
Middle East, and plans to reach her audience with TV shows.

Also in CD Book and Large Print

No Way to Treat a First Lady

(2002) Fiction
When First Lady Beth MacMann (aka “Lady Bethmac”) is charged
with killing her philandering husband, the President of the U.S.,
during a bedroom argument, she turns for help to notorious
defense attorney Boyce "Shameless" Baylor, her former flame.

Also in Cassette Book and CD Book

Thank You for Smoking

(1994) Fiction
An acclaimed best-seller finds Nick Taylor, chief spokesman for
The Academy of Tobacco studies, is pitted against an increasingly
self-righteous anti-smoking society— and against someone who
wants him stubbed out for good.

Film released in 2006- on DVD

The White House Mess

(1986) Fiction
Presidential Personal Assistant gives his inside view of the
ill-fated Tucker administration (1989-1993) in this novel of
American political satire.

Also in Large Print and in Russian - Sumatokha v Belom Dome

Little Green Men

(1999) Fiction
The privileged life of John Oliver Banion, a stuffy Washington
political commentator, is thrown into upheaval when he is
abducted by aliens during a golf outing at his exclusive
country club and embarks on a holy crusade, at the
behest of the aliens.

Wry Martinis

(1997) Nonfiction

A collection of essays and observations that range from
an account of the pope's appearance on "Oprah" to the
true story behind Whitewater to a whimsical tribute to
Tom Clancy.