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- Birth namePatrick Jake O'Rourke
- P.J. O'Rourke attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he graduated in 1969, and received an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University where he was a Woodrow Wilson fellow. After college, he discovered that he had no job prospects, so he decided to become a writer. He was editor-in-chief of the National Lampoon from 1978 to 1981, where he was responsible for the infamous "Yearbook" parody. He was the international affairs correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine from 1986 to 2001. He was the author of sixteen books, including Parliament of Whores, Give War a Chance, All the Trouble in the World, and Eat the Rich, several of which were NYT bestsellers. He had three children with his second wife, Tina.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Mike Konczewski
- SpousesChristina Mallon(September 9, 1995 - February 15, 2022) (his death, 3 children)Amy Lumet(December 15, 1990 - 1993) (divorced)
- Now has two daughters and one son, Clifford (b. 2003)
- Ex-son-in-law of Sidney Lumet and Gail Lumet Buckley.
- Ex-brother-in-law of Jenny Lumet and Bobby Cannavale.
- Ex-grandson-in-law of Lena Horne.
- Former grandson-in-law of Baruch Lumet.
- The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
- Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.
- Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
- A Conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged.
- [commenting on South Africa's apartheid policy] The world is built on discrimination of the most horrible kind. The problem with South Africans is they admit it.
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