Mr. P.J. O’Rourke
Often called the funniest writer in America, Mr. O’Rourke is the author of 12 best-selling books, including Don’t Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards, released in 2010. He worked at small newspapers in Baltimore and New York in the early 1970s before joining The National Lampoon, where he became editor-in-chief. Concluding in the ‘80s that the real world was funnier than anything The National Lampoon could create, he became a foreign correspondent and has since covered crises and conflicts in more than 70 countries. Published in a broad range of magazines and newspapers, O’Rourke is the H.L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., and a frequent panelist on National Public Radio’s show "Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me!" He earned a master’s degree in English from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
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