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Christopher Taylor Buckley (born September 28, 1952)[2] is an American political satirist and the author of novels including God Is My Broker, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, The White House Mess, No Way to Treat a First Lady, Wet Work, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir and, most recently, They Eat Puppies, Don't They?: A Novel. He is the son of writer William F. Buckley Jr. and socialite Patricia Buckley.
After a classical education at the Portsmouth Abbey School,[3] Buckley graduated from Yale University in 1975.[4] He was a member of Skull and Bones like his father, living at Jonathan Edwards College.[5]:173 He became managing editor of Esquire.
In 1981, he moved to Washington, D.C., to work as chief The White House Mess, a satire on White House office politics and political memoirs.[6] (The title refers to the White House lunchroom, which is known as the "mess" because the Navy operates it.)
Buckley's Thank You for Smoking 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. 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 billionaire businessman avenging his granddaughter's death from drugs.
Thank You for Smoking was adapted into a movie written and directed by Jason Reitman, and starring Aaron Eckhart. It was released on 17 March 2006.
Buckley also wrote the non-fiction Steaming To Bamboola, about the merchant marine, as well as contributed to an oral history of Milford, Connecticut, and is an editor at Forbes magazine. Buckley has written for many national newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time, The Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, US News & World Report, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Conde Nast Traveler and numerous humorous essays in The New Yorker.
For a brief time in summer and fall 2008, Christopher Buckley also wrote the back-page column for National Review, the conservative magazine founded by his father. This came to an end after Buckley endorsed the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in October 2008. Buckley's endorsement, entitled "Sorry Dad, I'm Voting for Obama",[7] appeared in The Daily Beast. He chose The Daily Beast to avoid complications with National Review. After many readers and contributors expressed their displeasure, Buckley resigned from National Review.[8][9] Buckley occasionally writes for The Daily Beast.[10]
An only child, Buckley found his mother easier to talk to than his father because of her attitude toward religion.[11]
He first married Lucy Gregg, daughter of Donald Gregg, who served as assistant to Vice President Bush for national security affairs.[12] They have two children, Caitlin and William (born in 1988 and 1991). He also has a son Jonathan (born 2000), from a relationship with former Random House publicist Irina Woelfle.[13][14] Buckley and Gregg divorced in spring 2011.
According to the New York Post, "Author Christopher Buckley has married Dr. Katy Close, a South Carolinian who runs a clinic in Haiti. They wed in Stamford, Conn., on Sept. 29 [2012] in front of 150 guests."[15]
Eulogy to Christopher Hitchens (The New Yorker)
The author's insights into the corridors of power were acquired during the year and a half he spent as a speech writer for Vice President Bush, starting in 1981.
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