Passing: Art Buchwald (NPR)
From NPR News:
"Columnist Art Buchwald Leaves Us Laughing"
by David Folkenflik
NPR.org, January 18, 2007 · Humorist Art Buchwald has died at the age of 81. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist, suffering a debilitating kidney failure, took himself off dialysis last February. Doctors gave him weeks to live. Instead, he left his hospice and survived another 11 months.
He wrote a final book — Too Soon to Say Goodbye — about the experience.
"The last year he had the opportunity for a victory lap and I think he was really grateful for it," his son, Joel Buchwald, said. "He had an opportunity to write his book about his experience and he went out the way he wanted to go, on his own terms."
At the height of his popularity, Buchwald was syndicated in hundreds of newspapers, where he poked fun at the foibles of celebrities and politicians.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5249437
"Columnist Art Buchwald Leaves Us Laughing"
by David Folkenflik
NPR.org, January 18, 2007 · Humorist Art Buchwald has died at the age of 81. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist, suffering a debilitating kidney failure, took himself off dialysis last February. Doctors gave him weeks to live. Instead, he left his hospice and survived another 11 months.
He wrote a final book — Too Soon to Say Goodbye — about the experience.
"The last year he had the opportunity for a victory lap and I think he was really grateful for it," his son, Joel Buchwald, said. "He had an opportunity to write his book about his experience and he went out the way he wanted to go, on his own terms."
At the height of his popularity, Buchwald was syndicated in hundreds of newspapers, where he poked fun at the foibles of celebrities and politicians.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5249437
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