Whether political commentator, social critic, crusader or humorist, the newspaper columnist must combine opinion with personality. Many of the most popular and successful, from George Orwell and Damon Runyon to Keith Waterhouse and Auberon Waugh, wrote columns that spoke not just of the moment, but were also of lasting significance, speaking with a direct,individual - even provocative - voice to their readers.

Acknowledgements

Introduclion

Bill Nye

J. M. Barrie

Eugene Field

Finley Peter Dunne

Ambrose Bierce

George Ade

Spencer Leigh Hughes

A. G. Gardiner

H. L. Mencken

Baird Leonard

Ring Lardner

D. B. Wyndham Lewis

Arthur 'Bugs' Baer

J. B. Morton

Fred C. Kelly

Ernest L. Meyer

Will Rogers

Gene Howe

Herbert Sidebotham

O. O. Mclntyre

Don Marquis

Simeon Strunsky

James M. Cain

Heywood Broun

Jay E. House

Walter Murdoch

Bob Davis

Robert Lynd

Mark Hellinger

Viscount Castlerosse

Westbrook Pegler

Tom Driberg

Dorothy Thompson

Collie Knox

Damon Runyon

Harold Nicolson

Ernie Pyle

Charles Low Cloud

William Randolph Hearst

E. B. White

Ben Hecht

Sergeant York

Raymond Clapper

Royce Brier

Carl Sandburg

Colonel John R. Stingo

George Orwell

Eleanor Roosevelt

Thomas Hornsby Ferril

Walter Winchell

Benjamin de Casseres

George Sokolsky

Howard O'Brien

Lennie Lower

James A. Jones

Walter Lippmann

1an Mackay

William Barkley

Max Lemer

I. F. Stone

William Connor

Joseph and Stewart Alsop

Compton Mackenzie

Langston Hughes

Jimmy Cannon

Henry Fairlie

Leo A. Lemer

Flann O'Brien

Joseph Chase Allen

Leon GeUert

Peter Fleming

Red Smith

Bill Vaughan

Meyer Berger

Paul Jennings

Harry Golden

Arthur Krock

Michael Frayn

Richard L. Strout

James Reston

Alexander Macdonald

Ralph McGill

Vermont Royster

The Earl of Arran

William Caldwell

Patrick Campbell

Kays Gary

Lucius Beebe

Charmian Clift

Jim Comstock

Casey Motsisi

Ross Campbell

Russell Baker

Pete Hamill

Herb Caen

Art Buchwald

Max Harris

Peter Simple

Sidney Zion

Arthur Marshall

Charles McCabe

John Gould

Auberon Waugh

George Frazier

Mike Royko

John Leonard

James J. Kilpatrick

James Cameron

Eugene J. McCarthy

Peregrine Worsthorne

Murray Kempton

John Junor

William Satire

Jim Murray

Ferdinand Mount

Jill Tweedie

Jimmy Breslin

Andy Rooney

Bernard Levin

Khushwant Singh

Calvin Trillin

PhiUip Adams

Jeffrey Bernard

Frank Gilbreth, Jr

Lynn Ashby

Keith Waterhouse

Erma Bombeck

Michael Bywater

Dave Barry

Shaun Johnson

Harry Shearer

George Mackay Brown

Anna Quindlen

Christopher Hitchens

Libby Gelman-Waxner

Alan Watkins

Ellen Goodman

Francis Wheen

Selected Bibliography