John Kenney

John Kenney spent seventeen years as an advertising copywriter before turning that world into Truth in Advertising, which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He writes regularly for The New Yorker’s Shouts and Murmurs, and his collections of light verse, beginning with Love Poems for Married People, do the same thing at shorter length. His own reading runs to serious literary fiction, which he treats as a separate appetite from the comedy he writes.