P. J. O'Rourke wrote more than twenty books on subjects as diverse as politics and cars and etiquette and economics.Parliament of Whores andGive War a Chance both reached #1 on theNew York Times bestseller list. He was a contributing editor at theWeekly Standard, H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute, a regular panellist on NPR'sWait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me, and editor-in-chief of the web magazineAmerican Consequences. Long a resident of rural New England, as far away from the things he wrote about as he could get, he died in 2022 at the age of 74.