Madeleine Begun Kane
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Madeleine Begun Kane is a Humorist and political satirist. She won the 2008 Robert Benchley Society Humor Award [1] and has been a National Society of Newspaper Columnists award winner. Her humor and essays have been published in newspapers, print magazines, and web sites and in anthologies and text books including Laughing Matters; Life's A Stitch: The Best of Contemporary Women's Humor; Funny Times: The Best of the Best American Humor; Jest Patriotic; Cash In On Laughter; Big Bush Lies; I Killed June Cleaver; Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club; Healer {Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious Volume 2}; and Pearson's[2] The Contemporary Reader . She is also a former lawyer.
Dubya's Dayly Diary (her ghostwritten satirical White House diary of George W. Bush) was named among The Guardian’s Best George Bush Websites[3]. [4]
Kane studied at the Eastman School of Music, the Aspen Music Festival, California Institute of the Arts, and St. John's University School of Law. She earned her B.F.A in music performance (oboe) from Cal Arts in 1971 and her J.D. from St. John's University School of Law in 1979.
Kane lives in Bayside, Queens with husband Mark Kane, and she publishes the humor site MadKane.com
External links
- Official Website of Madeleine Begun Kane
- Robert Benchley Society Humor Award
- Shop and Learn by Madeleine Begun Kane from the New York Times
- Laughing Matters
- The Contemporary Reader
References
- Robert Benchley Society Press Release
- Profile of Madeleine Begun Kane in Queens Tribune (scroll down the page to "It's Bush's Bayside Ghostwriter?")
- USA Today names Madeleine Begun Kane's Dubya's Dayly Diary Fun Site of the Week
- Radio Interview with Madeleine Begun Kane
- Interview With Madeleine Begun Kane
- AAN AltWeekly Awards Judges Bio List