Art Buchwald Biography
Art Buchwald is a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist/humorist, and is born on October 25, 1925 in Mt. Vernon, New York, to a Jewish family. His father, Joseph Buchwald, was a curtain manufacturer and his mother, Helen Buchwald, has a mental illness and spent 35 years of her life in a mental institution, rarely seeing her son. Art and his three sisters, Alice, Edith, and Doris, all grew up in foster homes. At the age of seventeen, he dropped out of high school (Forest Hills High School, Queens, NY) and joined the Marines. After his return, he enrolled at University of Southern California. However, the university soon found out that he’s a high school dropout, which resulted with the university giving him a special or non-degree status.
He often moved around from another foster home to another, and he admitted that he was lonely. I think that’s the reason why he became a humorist. He wanted to make people laugh, instead of being lonely. He being brought up in foster homes might be the reason why he adopted three children.
Art Buchwald received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards. He was also elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He interviewed Elvis Presley which resulted to a bestseller, I’ll Always Have Paris.
His main and life-term goal was to make others laugh. He did a really good job on that considering he’s one of the most famous humorists in the 20th century. His successful career as a journalist only proves his talent on making the public laugh. I think that he in a way, he helped people. He helped them forget about their worries and problems.
One of his influences in the world is when he tried to explain Thanksgiving to the French. It was re-run every Thanksgiving of his lifetime. His column has also appeared in about 550 newspapers,
He often moved around from another foster home to another, and he admitted that he was lonely. I think that’s the reason why he became a humorist. He wanted to make people laugh, instead of being lonely. He being brought up in foster homes might be the reason why he adopted three children.
Art Buchwald received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards. He was also elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He interviewed Elvis Presley which resulted to a bestseller, I’ll Always Have Paris.
His main and life-term goal was to make others laugh. He did a really good job on that considering he’s one of the most famous humorists in the 20th century. His successful career as a journalist only proves his talent on making the public laugh. I think that he in a way, he helped people. He helped them forget about their worries and problems.
One of his influences in the world is when he tried to explain Thanksgiving to the French. It was re-run every Thanksgiving of his lifetime. His column has also appeared in about 550 newspapers,