Patrick Jake O’Rourke was an American political satirist and journalist.
He was born on November 14, 1947, in Toledo, Ohio, to Delphine (née Loy), a housewife, and Clifford Bronson O’Rourke, a car dealer.
PJ graduated from Toledo’s DeVilbiss High School in 1965, attained his undergraduate degree from Miami University in 1969, and earned an MA in English at Johns Hopkins University.
O’Rourke was the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute and a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio’s game show Wait Wait.
In the UK, he was known as the face of a long-running series of television advertisements for British Airways in the 1990s.
He is well-known for his books, of which the latest ones are, ‘Don’t Vote! – It Just Encourages the Bastards, ‘Holidays in Heck’ and ‘The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn’t My Fault) (And I’ll Never Do It Again)’.
O’Rourke and Amy Lumet married from 1990 to 1993. After their divorce, he married Tina in 1995.
In September 2008, O’Rourke announced that he had been diagnosed with treatable anal cancer, from which he expected “a 95% chance of survival.
O’Rourke died from lung cancer on February 15, 2022, at the age of 74.
He left behind his wife, Tina, and their children Elizabeth, Olivia and Clifford.
Amy Lumet: Who Is PJ O’Rourke’s Ex-Wife?
Amy Lumet is the daughter of movie director Sidney Lumet and the granddaughter of dancer Lena Horne.
Amy, born November 18, 1964, works in the entertainment industry. She was the apprentice sound editor on the 1987 film, Making Mr. Right.
Some of her executive producer credits include; Red Rider, Cobalt 60, et al.
PJ O’Rourke and Amy married in 1990 and separated in 1993.