Art Buchwald (1925–2007)
Autor(a) de Too Soon to Say Goodbye
About the Author
Columnist Art Buchwald was born in Mt. Vernon, New York on October 20, 1925. At the age of 17, he dropped out of high school and joined the Marines. He served from October 1942 to October 1945 and then enrolled at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles to study liberal arts. In 1948, mostrar mais he left the university and traveled to Paris where he worked as a correspondent for Variety magazine and later as a columnist for the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune. He returned to the United States in 1962, wrote more than 30 books, and had a column in The Washington Post, which dealt with political satire and commentary. He won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1982, was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1986, and received the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He died of kidney failure on January 17, 2007. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Art Buchwald
More Caviar 8 exemplares
Paris after dark 3 exemplares
Pacco a sorpresa 1 exemplar
Patrona Bir Paket Kadın 1 exemplar
Son of The Great Society 1 exemplar
Don't Be Misled 1 exemplar
Sheep On The Runway (Playbill) [Vol 7 No 4] 1 exemplar
Leaving Home 1 exemplar
Mars Is Ours! 1 exemplar
Uma prenda para o chefe 1 exemplar
Les plombiers de la Maison-Blanche 1 exemplar
Zmęczony Amerykanin 1 exemplar
Un regalo de los muchachos 1 exemplar
Laßt Euch bloß nicht unterkriegen : [freundliche Tröstungen für Mitmenschen - die neuesten und besten Geschichten… (1975) 1 exemplar
Maxim's at Fifty Thousand Feet 1 exemplar
Lachen ist unfein 1 exemplar
Associated Works
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contribuidor — 452 exemplares
Washington: a reader; the National Capital as seen through the eyes of Thomas Jefferson (1967) 3 exemplares
Best in Books, Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Parliament, My Dear Mr. Churchill, The Third Side of the Coin, and The Inland Sea — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Best-in-Books: Concubine / Flight and Pursuit / My Darling Clementine / The Day (1964) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1925-10-20
- Data de falecimento
- 2007-01-17
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York City, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Washington, D.C., USA
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA - Educação
- Forest Hills High School
- Ocupações
- humorist (The Washington Post)
correspondent (Variety)
editor (The New York Herald Tribune) - Relações
- Buchwald, Ann (Wife)
- Organizações
- US Marine Corps (4th Marine Aircraft Wing ∙ 1942-1945)
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1986 ∙ member)
Wampus campus magazine (managing editor)
Honorary Doctorate (University of Sourthern California ∙ 1993) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Pulitzer Prize (Commentary, 1982)
Membros
Discussions
What Are You Reading the Week of 18 October 2014? em What Are You Reading Now? (Outubro 2014)
Críticas
I'll Always Have Paris: A Memoir por Art Buchwald
I really, really enjoyed this book! I wasn't sure if I would but I gave it a try and it was so good! I wanted to be annoyed by his constant name-dropping but he's just such a loveable guy that I just couldn't! Usually the cocky types really bug me--but I really think his cockiness is just a cover for insecurities...he seems like he was a really great guy. (Just read last week that he had passed away). I actually cried at the end because everything turned out so well! :) I especially liked it that he made mention of the book, "Best Loved Poems of the American People". This was one of my grandma Betty's favorite books and my mom has found a poem from it for me here and there over the years.… (mais)
A peculiarity of Buchwald's career; while a lot of his books have not aged well, this one is likely to hang on (along with his memoirs of reporting from Paris), because of the fact that he is reporting on something close to him. In this case, his pending death from a variety of complications. It's more or less an account of his final weeks of life, from the point of view of the hospice where he was staying. The humour here is, unlike his political work, authentically funny.
There are times where Art Buchwald was an insufferable bore, and other times when he was actually witty and interesting. The book has elements of both Buchwalds, but luckily it's more the latter than the former. His books of alleged humour haven't held up nearly as well, I think, but this memoir of Paris in the 1950s and early 1960s reads fairly well. There's a lot of name-dropping here, though some of it is tongue in cheek. Some of it might even be true, who knows?
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 63
- Also by
- 15
- Membros
- 1,659
- Popularidade
- #15,496
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Críticas
- 22
- ISBN
- 92
- Línguas
- 3
- Marcado como favorito
- 2