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 Born
in 1947 in Toledo, Ohio, he graduated from Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio, then won a Woodrow
Wilson Fellowship to study for an MA in English
at Johns Hopkins. In the early 1970s, he wrote
for and edited several "underground"
publications, including a Baltimore weekly
called Harry. He joined the National
Lampoon in 1973, became its managing editor
in 1975, and was named editor-in-chief in 1978.
While at the Lampoon he created, with
Doug Kenney, The National Lampoon 1964
Yearbook Parody and, with John Hughes, The
National Lampoon Sunday Newspaper Parody.
After leaving the Lampoon in 1981, O'Rourke became a freelance writer for such insanely diverse publications as Car and Driver, The American Spectator, Playboy, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Automobile, House and Garden, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, Parade, Smart, Harper's and Rolling Stone, where he is currently the magazine's Foreign Affairs Desk Chief. O'Rourke's books have been translated into a dozen languages and have been bestsellers worldwide. Three have been New York Times hardcover bestsellers: Parliament of Whores and Give War A Chance, both of which went to #1, as well as All the Trouble in the World. When not on the road, he divides his time between New Hampshire and Washington, DC., and is a H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute The following pieces are divided into two parts: quips, and three of the stories he wrote while working for the National Lampoon.
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