Buchwald was born in New York in 1925.he was an American humorist. He first started writing as a paid journalist in Paris after second world war. He was a part of large American expatriate at that time, received Pulitzer prize in 1982
He was born in the immigrant family father Joseph and mother Helen. He was the youngest of four children. his mother lived in the hospital for 35 years because of her illness. When family business failed his father put him in the asylum center in The New York. He stayed in the forester home for at least five years. During the world war second, he wanted to join in the us marine corps but he was too young but later served.
In 1949 Buchwald left the university of Southern California and went to Paris. In Paris he got a job as a correspondence of variety. He was later hired as an editorial staff in restaurant and night club. Buchwald enjoyed the notoriety he received when U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's press secretary, Jim Hagerty, took seriously a spoof press conference report claiming that reporters asked questions about the president's breakfast habits. After Hagerty called his own conference to denounce the article as "unadulterated rot," Buchwald famously retorted, "Hagerty is wrong. I write adulterated rot." On August 24, 1959, TIME magazine, in reviewing the history of the European edition of The Herald Tribune, reported that Buchwald's column had achieved an "institutional quality."
Buchwald married Anne in Paris. Anne was a Irish –America apprentice couturier from Pennsylvania. Later they adopted three children in the USA. They settled down in Washington and started to write in the Washington post.
Awards:
In 1982 Buchwald was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary
In 1991 he received the World Humor Award, from the Workshop Library on World Humor
In 1997 he received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.
As refers to the wikipediya/Buchwald,He was later suffered an illness called mental disorder. he hospitalized in 1963 for his severe digression.in 2000 at the age of 74 he suffered a stroke then he hospitalized for more than two months. He used to eat Mc Donald in his later parts of life. he died in 2007.