Funny Letters from Famous People

Known for his clever commentary and witty radio-show rhymes, Charles Osgood here selects and introduces a collection of hilarious correspondence from some of our best-loved politicians, authors, and stars of the stage and screen. Funny Letters from Famous People delivers rib-tickling communications from the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Flannery OConnor, S. J. Perelman, Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, John Cheever and dozens more.

Providing an entertaining look at celebrated lives, Osgood lets us glimpse Mark Twain squabbling with the gas company, Dwight D. Eisenhower kvetching to Mamie about Patton, and radio personality Fred Allen desperately seeking logic from his insurance carrier in one of comedys most amusing epistles.

Sprinkled throughout with Osgoods own humorous quips, Funny Letters from Famous People is a delightful compendium of clever letter writing at its side-splitting best.

Inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2000 and the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1990, he has received some of the highest accolades in broadcast journalism, including three Emmy Awards.

The author of five other books, including The Osgood Files and See You on the Radio, Osgood lives with his wife in New York City.