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Andy Rooney

Andy Rooney is known to millions for his wry, humorous and sometimes controversial essays that have been the signature end piece of 60 Minutes for decades. The 2003-04 season marked Rooney's 26th doing these unique reports, "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney," which became a regular feature on 60 minutes in 1978. He's won three Emmy Awards for the essays, which now number more than 800 and was recently awarded a Lifetime Achievement Emmy. Rooney has always considered himself a writer who appears on television; in addition to his 60 Minutes essays, he has written a national newspaper column for Tribune Media Services since 1979, published articles in major magazines, and is the author of 13 books, the most recent, Common Nonsense, published in 2002. Rooney's rich body of work was recognized by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists when he was presented with its Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award (June 2003). "Ernie Pyle's life and work eloquently captured the hopes and aspirations of the common man... Andy Rooney's work is in that fine tradition," said the society's president. "The most felicitous nonfiction writer in television" is how Time magazine once described Rooney, who has won the Writers Guild Award for Best Script of the year six times, more than any writer in... Next

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