Hailed “the quintessential political novelist of his time” by Fortune Magazine, Christopher Buckley is the winner of the distinguished ninth annual Thurber Prize for American Humor.  

He is the best-selling author, social and political satirist whose novels include God Is My Broker, Thank You for Smoking on DVD, Little Green Men, The White House Mess, No Way to Treat a First Lady, Wet Work, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday,  Supreme Courtship, and, most recently, Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir.  

Mr. Buckley has written for most 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.

Audiences have called Buckley’s talks “The wittiest, funniest, wry-est presentation of them all!”