Buchwald, << BOOK wawld, >> Art (1925-2007), was an American newspaper columnist who specialized in political and social satire. He usually put politicians and other famous people into imaginary settings and invented humorous dialogue for them. His column appeared in hundreds of papers in many countries. Buchwald won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1982.
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Arthur Buchwald was born on Oct. 20, 1925, in Mount Vernon, New York. He dropped out of high school at the age of 17 and joined the United States Marine Corps. He attended the University of Southern California from 1945 to 1948 but did not graduate. He then worked in Paris as a correspondent for Variety. In 1949, he became a syndicated columnist for the International Herald Tribune in Paris. In 1952, the New York Herald Tribune began publishing the column in the United States. The Los Angeles Times Syndicate took over distribution of the column in 1966. Buchwald died on Jan. 17, 2007.
