![]() An example of this writing style is contained in this example where the author describes a fictional country as the Middle East's preeminent "no-fun zone," unless. Every sentence in this story is packed with humor, farce, irony, satire, irreverence, mockery, or exaggerated stereotype. ![]() ![]() In the spirit of Lawrence of Arabia who freed the Arabs, so also Florence of Arabia bravely set out to free the women of the Middle East from gender injustice in an oppressive theocracy. In 2004 he was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He is the recipient of the 2002 Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence. His journalism, satire and criticism has been widely published-in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New Republic, Washington Monthly, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Esquire, and other publications. Buckley has contributed over 60 comic essays to The New Yorker magazine. They include: The White House Mess, Wet Work, Thank You For Smoking, God Is My Broker, Little Green Men, No Way To Treat a First Lady, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday and Supreme Courtship. He is the author of twelve books, most of them national bestsellers. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Since 1989 he has been founder and editor-in-chief of Forbes Life magazine. ![]() At age 29, he became chief speechwriter to the Vice President of the United States, George H.W. He shipped out in the Merchant Marine and at age 24 became managing editor of Esquire magazine. Christopher Buckley graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1976. ![]()
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