Meet Delphine Loy O'Rourke and Clifford Bronson O'Rourke

P.J. O’Rourke was an American libertarian, political satirist and journalist. He was born in the city of Toledo, Ohio.

In 1969, he graduated from Miami University, and a year later, he obtained an M.A. in English from Johns Hopkins University.

In 1973, he joined the National Lampoon, where he served as editor-in-chief, among other things.

O’Rourke published 20 books, the most well-known of which being Holidays in Hell, a collection of his pieces as a freelance foreign journalist in which he analyzed political issues including global warming and poverty from a libertarian standpoint.

He died of complications from lung cancer at the age of 74.

P.J. O’Rourke parents: Meet Delphine Loy O’Rourke and Clifford Bronson O’Rourke

He is the son of Delphine O’Rourke and Clifford Bronson O’Rourke. Delphine was a housewife whiles Clifford was a car salesman. They both supported him in pursuing his journalistic career.

Many of O’Rourke’s essays recount that during his student days he was a leftist, anti-war hippie, but that in the 1970s his political views underwent a volte-face.

Does P.J. O’Rourke have siblings?

His siblings are not known till this day.

O’Rourke is also survived by his wife Tina, two daughters, Elizabeth and Olivia, and son, Clifford.