30 Facts About Garry Trudeau

Garretson Beekman Trudeau was born on July 21,1948 and is an American cartoonist, best known for creating the Doonesbury comic strip.

Garry Trudeau is the creator and executive producer of the Amazon Studios political comedy series Alpha House.

Garry Trudeau was born in New York City, the son of Jean Douglas and Francis Berger Garry Trudeau Jr.

Garry Trudeau is the great-grandson of Edward Livingston Trudeau, who created Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis at Saranac Lake, New York.

The latter founded the Trudeau Institute at Saranac Lake, with which Garry Trudeau retains a connection.

Garry Trudeau's ancestry is French Canadian, English, Dutch, German, and Swedish.

Garry Trudeau spent much of his time cartooning and writing for Yale's humor magazine The Yale Record, eventually serving as the magazine's editor-in-chief.

Garry Trudeau did postgraduate work at the Yale School of Art, earning a master of fine arts degree in graphic design in 1973.

In 1975, Garry Trudeau became the first comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer, traditionally awarded to editorial-page cartoonists.

Garry Trudeau was a Pulitzer finalist in 1990,2004, and 2005.

In 1993, Garry Trudeau was made a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Garry Trudeau was nominated for an Oscar in 1977 in the category of Animated Short Film for A Doonesbury Special, created for NBC in collaboration with John and Faith Hubley.

Garry Trudeau again collaborated with Swados in 1984, this time on Rap Master Ronnie, a satirical revue about the Reagan Administration that opened off-Broadway at the Village Gate.

Also in 1988, Garry Trudeau wrote and co-produced with director Robert Altman HBO's critically acclaimed Tanner '88, a satiric look at that year's presidential election campaign.

In 2004, Garry Trudeau reunited with Altman to write and co-produce a sequel mini-series, Tanner on Tanner, for the Sundance Channel.

In 1996, Newsweek and the Washington Post speculated that Garry Trudeau had written the novel Primary Colors, which was later revealed to have been written by Joe Klein.

In February 2000, Garry Trudeau, working with Dotcomix, launched Duke2000, a web-based presidential campaign featuring a real-time, 3-D, streaming-animation version of Duke.

In 2013, Garry Trudeau created, wrote and co-produced Alpha House, a political sitcom starring John Goodman that revolves around four Republican US Senators who live together in a townhouse on Capitol Hill.

Garry Trudeau has contributed to such publications as Harper's, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, The New Yorker, New York, and The Washington Post.

Garry Trudeau received several unit commendations from the field during the Gulf War, and he traveled with the USO to visit troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

For most of the strip's run, Garry Trudeau has eschewed merchandising, but starting in 1998 he teamed up with Starbucks to create Doonesbury products to raise funds for local literacy programs.

Garry Trudeau's son Ross, a digital media producer, is a crossword constructor who has been published in the New York Times.

Garry Trudeau married Jane Pauley on June 14,1980; they have three children.

In 1990, Garry Trudeau appeared on the cover of Newsweek for Inside Doonesbury's Brain, a story written by Jonathan Alter.

Garry Trudeau cooperated extensively with Wired magazine for a 2000 profile, "The Revolution Will be Satirized".

Garry Trudeau was brought on to discuss his prediction about Donald Trump's plans to run for president almost three decades earlier.

Garry Trudeau was on her show to promote his new book Yuge, which covers 30 years of Trump appearing in Doonesbury.

On November 7,2016, Garry Trudeau appeared on Fresh Air with Terry Gross to discuss Yuge.

Garry Trudeau has attracted criticism both for the comic strip and for his own opinions.

Garry Trudeau was labeled a "terror apologist" by the editors of The New York Post for his comments, with his choice of the venue in which to make them "adding to the insult".