Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene (introduction).Ray Bradbury: The Stories of Ray Bradbury (introduction).The New Yorker Book of Political Cartoons (introduction).Disquiet, Please! More Humor Writing from The New Yorker (contributor).Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (contributor).Islands: A Treasury of Contemporary Travel Writing (contributor).If These Walls Could Talk (contributor).Washington Schlepped Here: Walking in the Nation's Capital (2003)īooknotes interview with Buckley on Wry Martinis, May 4, 1997, C-SPAN.Steaming to Bamboola – The World of a Tramp Freighter (1983).Tom Vaughan was set to direct the film in early 2011 for GreeneStreet Films and Das Films Boomsday (In development) Screenwriters Ron Bass and Jen Smolka have adapted the novel into a screenplay.Little Green Men (In development) (Screenplay by Sean Bates and Gregory Mackenzie).Thank You for Smoking (2006) (Directed by Jason Reitman, Screenplay also by Reitman).Make Russia Great Again: A Novel (2020).God Is My Broker: A Monk-Tycoon Reveals the 7½ Laws of Spiritual and Financial Growth (1998) (written with John Tierney).She has four children.īibliography Satirical novels In 2000, Buckley's son, Jonathan, was born to former Random House publicist Irina Woelfle. Buckley and Gregg have two children, Caitlin and William, born in 19, respectively. Personal life īuckley first marriage was to Lucy Gregg, the daughter of Donald Gregg, who served as assistant to Vice President Bush for national security affairs and later as United States Ambassador to South Korea.
Buckley disavowed the choice of title, although he continued to occasionally write for the Beast. The Beast 's title for his endorsement, "Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama", was found by many of his father's friends and supporters to be offensive, particularly as it appeared shortly after his father's death. After many National Review readers and contributors still expressed their displeasure, Buckley resigned from that publication. In October 2008, Buckley wrote a column endorsing Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, choosing to have it published in The Daily Beast to avoid backlash from National Review readers. In summer and fall 2008, Christopher Buckley wrote the back-page column for National Review, the conservative magazine founded by his father. His novel Thank You For Smoking was adapted to the screen and directed by Jason Reitman. His 20 books have been published in 16 languages. Buckley was editor-in-chief of Forbes FYI, later Forbes Life, from 1990 to 2007. Forbes hired Buckley to start up a supplement to Forbes magazine. His first bestselling novel, The White House Mess, published in 1986, was a satire on White House office politics and political memoirs. to become chief speechwriter to Vice President George H.W. The experience was the basis for his first bestselling non-fiction book, Steaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Freighter, published in 1982. Gulf ports and North Sea ports in England and Germany. In 1980 he returned to sea aboard an American ship and made eight mid-winter transatlantic crossings between U.S. He joined the staff of Esquire magazine in 1976 and seven months later was promoted at age 24 to managing editor.
He graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1976. After receiving a classical education at Portsmouth Abbey School, Buckley worked his way around the world as a deckhand on a Norwegian tramp freighter. Buckley is the son of writer and Firing Line host William F.
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