Andy Rooney

"The most felicitous nonfiction writer in television" is how "Time" magazine once described Andy Rooney, the CBS News correspondent, writer and producer.

He has won the Writers Guild Award for Best Script of the Year six times, more than any other writer in the history of the medium.

The 2001-02 season marks Rooney's 24th on 60 MINUTES. His unique reports, "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney," became a regular feature in September 1978.

He won Emmy Awards for these essays in 1979, 1981 and 1982. On May 8, 1994, Rooney presented his 500th segment on the broadcast. In May 1996, he made headlines when he strayed slightly from his usual "few minutes" to do a longer piece on euthanasia advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who had insisted that he would talk to 60 Minutes only if Rooney conducted the interview.

In addition to his contributions to 60 Minutes, Rooney wrote, produced and narrated a series of broadcasts for CBS News on various aspects of America and American life, including "Mr. Rooney Goes to Washington," for which he won a Peabody Award, "Andy Rooney Takes Off," "Mr. Rooney Goes to Work" and "Mr. Rooney Goes to Dinner."

Rooney wrote the first of what has become his specialty, the television essay -- a personal format illuminating subjects most people take for granted - with "An Essay on Doors" in 1964.

Between 1962 and 1968, he collaborated with the late CBS News Correspondent Harry Reasoner -- Rooney writing and producing, Reasoner narrating--on such notable CBS News specials as "An Essay on Bridges" (1965), "An Essay on Hotels" (1966), "An Essay on Women" (1967), "An Essay on Chairs" (1968) and "The Strange Case of the English Language" (1968). "An Essay on War" (1971) won Rooney his third Writers Guild Award.

In 1968, he wrote two CBS News specials in the series Of Black America. His script for "Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed" won him his first Emmy Award.

He wrote for The Garry Moore Show on CBS (1959-65) and was a writer for Arthur Godfrey (1949-55), also on CBS. He also wrote for such CBS News public affairs broadcasts as The Twentieth Century, News of America, Adventure, Calendar and The Morning Show with Will Rogers Jr.

He is the author of 11 other books: "Air Gunner"; "The Story of the Stars and Stripes"; "Conquerors' Pace"; "The Fortunes of War"; "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney"; "And More by Andy Rooney"; "Pieces of My Mind"; "Word for Word"; "Not That You Asked..."; "Sweet and Sour", "My War" and "Sincerely, Andy Rooney." "The Story of the Stars and Stripes," which he wrote after three years as a correspondent for that newspaper in the European Theater, was purchased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He worked as a writer at MGM on that and other projects.

In addition to his work as a CBS News correspondent, Rooney writes a column for Tribune Media Services, which appears column two days a week in 200 newspapers across the nation. He has also contributed articles to "Esquire", "Life", "Look", "Reader's Digest", "Harper's", "Playboy", "Saturday Review" and other magazines.

Rooney was born Jan. 14, 1919, in Albany, N.Y. He attended Colgate University until he was drafted into the Army in 1941. In February 1943, he was one of six correspondents who flew with the Eighth Air Force on the first American bombing raid on Germany.

Rooney and his wife, Marguerite, live in Rowayton, Conn. They have four children.

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