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Christopher Buckley

Christopher Buckley was born in New York City in 1952. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey, worked on a Norwegian tramp freighter and graduated cum laude from Yale. At age 24 he was managing editor of “Esquire” magazine; at 29, chief speechwriter to the Vice President of the United States, George H.W. Bush. He was the founding editor of “Forbes FYI” magazine (now “ForbesLife”), where he is now editor-at-large.

He has written for “The New York Times,” “Washington Post,” “Wall Street Journal,” “The New Yorker,” “Atlantic Monthly,” “Time,” “Newsweek,” “Vanity Fair,” “National Geographic,” “New York Magazine,” “The Washington Monthly,” “Forbes,” “Esquire,” “Vogue,” “Daily Beast,” and other publications.

He received the Washington Irving Prize for Literary Excellence and the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He lives in Connecticut.

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