Christopher Buckley is the author of eleven books, many of them national bestsellers, including THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, GOD IS MY BROKER, LITTLE GREEN MEN, NO WAY TO TREAT A FIRST LADY, WASHINGTON SCHLEPPED HERE and FLORENCE OF ARABIA. THANK YOU FOR SMOKING was developed into a major motion picture starring Robert Duvall, Katie Holmes, and Aaron Eckhart. His books have been translated into over a dozen languages, including Russian and Korean. Christopher Buckley won the distinguished ninth annual Thurber Prize for American Humor.