WORLD-CLASS CURMUDGEONS

EDWARD ABBEY

GOODMAN ACE

FRED ALLEN

WOODY ALLEN

KINGSLEY AMIS

MARTIN AMIS

MATTHEW ARNOLD

RUSSELL BAKER

TALLULAH BANKHEAD

DAVE BARRY

JOHN BARRYMORE

JOHN BARTH

ORSON BEAN

LUCIUS BEEBE

THOMAS BEECHAM

MAX BEERBOHM

ROBERT BENCHLEY

AMBROSE BIERCE

ROY BLOUNT, JR.

DANIEL J. BOORSTIN

JIMMY BRESLIN

DAVID BRINKLEY

BROTHER THEODORE

HEYWOOD BROUN

RITA MAE BROWN

LENNY BRUCE

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.

HERB CAEN

TRUMAN CAPOTE

AL CAPP

NICOLAS CHAMFORT

G. K. CHESTERTON

JOHN CLEESE

CATHY CRIMMINS

QUENTIN CRISP

EDWARD DAHLBERG

BETTE DAVIS

PETER DE VRIES

LINDA ELLERBEE

CHRIS ELLIOTT

HARLAN ELLISON

JOSEPH EPSTEIN

JULES FEIFFER

W. C. FIELDS

CARRIE FISHER

JOHN FORD

ANATOLE FRANCE

ROBERT FROST

PAUL FUSSELL

LARRY GELBART

EDWARD GOREY

LEWIS GRIZZARD

BEN HECHT

TONY HENDRA

BUCK HENRY

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

HENRIK IBSEN

HAROLD L. ICKES

MOLLY IVINS

CLIVE JAMES

SAMUEL JOHNSON

ERICA JONG

BEN JONSON

ALICE KAHN

GEORGE S. KAUFMAN

MARGO KAUFMAN

ALEXANDER KING

FLORENCE KING

TONY KORNHEISER

KARL KRAUS

STEPHEN LEACOCK

FRAN LEBOWITZ

TOM LEHRER

JOHN LEO

DAVID LETTERMAN

OSCAR LEVANT

BEA LILLIE

WILLIAM LOEB

PHILLIP LOPATE

HERMAN MANKIEWICZ

SAMUEL MARCHBANKS

DON MARQUIS

GROUCHO MARX

H. L. MENCKEN

MARY McCARTHY

COLIN McENROE

DENNIS MILLER

HENRY MILLER

JESSICA MITFORD

NANCY MITFORD

WILSON MIZNER

HENRY MORGAN

ROBERT MORLEY

MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE

MARTIN MULL

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

GEORGE JEAN NATHAN

FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE

RALPH NOVAK

GEORGE ORWELL

CAMILLE PAGLIA

DOROTHY PARKER

WESTBROOK PEGLER

S. J. PERELMAN

J. B. PRIESTLEY

PRINCE PHILIP

JOE QUEENAN

FRANK RICH

ANTOINE DE RIVAROL

ANDY ROONEY

HOWARD ROSENBERG

MIKE ROYKO

HUGHES RUDD

RITA RUDNER

HORACE RUMPOLE

BERTRAND RUSSELL

MORT SAHL

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

HARRY SHEARER

WILFRED SHEED

IAN SHOALES

JOHN SILBER

JOHN SIMON

GLORIA STEINEM

AUGUST STRINDBERG

TAKI THEODORACOPULOS

‘HUNTER S. THOMPSON

JAMES THURBER

CALVIN TRILLIN

MARK TWAIN

GORE VIDAL

VOLTAIRE

NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN

ERIC VON STROHEIM

JOHN WATERS

EVELYN WAUGH

CLIFTON WEBB

ORSON WELLES

IAN WHITCOMB

T.H. WHITE

OSCAR WILDE

BILLY WILDER

GEORGE WILL

EDMUND WILSON

ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT

FRANK ZAPPA