Art Buchwald's Death

The journalist Art Buchwald died at the age of 81. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

American humorist who wrote a long-running column in The Washington Post. In 1982, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary.

He was born in New York City to Jewish immigrant parents of Austrian and Hungarian descent. He and his wife, Ann, later adopted three children.

Buchwald died of kidney failure on January 17, 2007, at his son Joel’s home in Washington, D.C.

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The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

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So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn’t Die. I don’t know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I’m still around.

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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

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A humorist has to be taken seriously before he’s considered a real writer.

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It is one thing to choose to go into a hospice; it’s another thing to get on the air and tell everybody about it.