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    Roy Blunt

    American politician (born 1950)

    This article is about the politician. For the writer and humorist, see Roy Blount Jr.

    Roy Blunt

    Official portrait, 2011

    In office
    January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2023
    Preceded byKit Bond
    Succeeded byEric Schmitt
    In office
    January 3, 2019 – January 3, 2023
    LeaderMitch McConnell
    Preceded byJohn Barrasso
    Succeeded byJoni Ernst
    In office
    February 3, 2021 – January 3, 2023
    Preceded byAmy Klobuchar
    Succeeded byDeb Fischer
    In office
    April 10, 2018 – February 3, 2021
    Preceded byRichard Shelby
    Succeeded byAmy Klobuchar
    In office
    January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2017
    Preceded byChuck Schumer
    Succeeded byRichard Shelby
    In office
    January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2009
    LeaderJohn Boehner
    Preceded bySteny Hoyer
    Succeeded byEric Cantor
    Acting
    September 29, 2005 – February 2, 2006
    Lea

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    Roy Blount Jr.

    American writer (born 1941)

    This article is about the writer and humorist. For the similarly named senator, see Roy Blunt.

    Roy Alton Blount Jr. (; born October 4, 1941) is an American writer, speaker, reporter, and humorist.

    Life and career

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    Blount was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew up in Decatur, Georgia.[1] He attended Ponce de Leon Elementary School and graduated from Decatur High School, where he was class president and editor of the school newspaper, The Scribbler. He received the Grantland Rice Journalism Scholarship to study journalism at Vanderbilt University, where he distinguished himself and was Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. He went on to Harvard University, where he received his MA grad. Blount is married to painter Joan Griswold; they reside in New Orleans and western Massachusetts.[1]

    Blount was a staff writer and associate editor with Sports Illustrated from 1968 to 1975, and has conti

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    Roy Blount


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    Photo Credit: Joan Griswold

    Roy Blount Jr. is the author of twenty-two books, about a wide range of things, from the first woman president of the United States to what barnyard animals are thinking. Next is Hail, Hail Euphoria: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, from HarperCollins. The most recent, Alphabet Juice, is out in paperback from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, which will publish the sequel, Alphabetter Juice: The Joy of Text, in April. The next most recent, Long Time Leaving: Dispatches From Up South (Knopf), won the 2007 nonfiction award from the New England Independent Booksellers Association; and AudioFile chose the audio version (HighBridge) as one of the year's top five books read by their authors. The book before that one, Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans, "delivers the goods," according to the New York Times: "a wild, unpredictable ramble through a wi

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