Art Buchwald
Arthur "Art " Buchwald ( born October 20, 1925 in Mount Vernon, New York, USA, † January 17, 2007 in Washington, DC) was an American journalist and humorist.
Life
Art Buchwald was the son of Austrian- Jewish immigrant Joseph Buchwald and his Hungarian wife, Helen Kline Berger. Buchenwald sen. fled to the United States before the war service in the imperial Austro-Hungarian army and opened a company for the manufacture of curtains and seat covers. Art Buchwald met his mother never know, because she was sent shortly after his birth in a psychiatric hospital and he later at any visit to trust more. He had three sisters, Alice, Edith and Doris. He grew up in Forest Hills, in a parish of the municipality Queens in New York City. His childhood and youth were spent in orphanages and foster families. Here he learned to assert themselves and gain recognition by bringing people laugh. He no longer made the high- school degree, but went with seventeen years in the army.
Buchwald made 1942-1945 military service in the Reserve of the U.S. Marine Corps. After having worked as a columnist for the magazine Variety in the 1940s, he went to Paris in 1949, where he worked until 1962 for the New York Herald Tribune. During this time he reported in his column collection " Paris After Dark" especially about the nightlife of the French capital. Beginning in 1951, followed by the column " Mostly About People", later "Europe's Lighter Side ".
In Paris he met his wife Ann McGarry know, who worked as a writer for the fashion designer Pierre Balmain in Paris. They married in 1952 and adopted three children.
His columns appeared in more than 300 U.S. newspapers and magazines. The "king of satire " acclaimed author wrote more than 8,000 columns and 30 books.
Buchenwald processed in 1990 against Paramount Pictures for unlawful adaptation one of his stories. The story is based on this movie Coming to America ( German: Coming to America ) with Eddie Murphy was published in 1988 Buchwald won the case. .
After serious health problems, especially a stroke in 2000, a severe kidney disease and a leg amputation in early 2006 to Buchenwald pulled back on medical advice to die in a hospice. There he held court extensively and recovered, contrary to expectations, so that he could leave the facility again. His created at this time last book he titled " Too Soon to Say Goodbye ". Buchwald died on 17 January 2007 at a hospice in Washington, DC of kidney failure. Buchwald's wife Ann died in 1994.
Awards
1982 got Buchwald Pulitzer Prize for his satirical comments in his book "While Reagan slept ," he wrote to the time for the Los Angeles Times. In 1986 he was elected to the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.