About Christopher Buckley (novelist)
Christopher Taylor Buckley is an American author and political satirist. He also served as chief speechwriter to Vice President George H. W. Bush. He is known for writing God Is My Broker, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, The White House Mess, No Way to Treat a First Lady, Wet Work, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir, and The Judge Hunter. In summer and fall 2008, Christopher Buckley wrote the back-page column for National Review, the conservative magazine founded by his father. The experience was the basis for his first bestselling non-fiction book, Steaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Freighter, published in 1982. His first bestselling novel, The White House Mess, published in 1986, was a satire on White House office politics and political memoirs.
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