Īt Burger, he taught effective writing to business people.
He then worked briefly as a copy editor at the Associated Press's Philadelphia bureau before joining Burger Associates, a consulting firm.
He remained at the newspaper through 1974. He also started writing a weekly humor column for the paper and began to develop his unique style. He covered local government and civic events and was promoted to City Editor after about two years. He said, "The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes." Writing career īarry began his journalism career in 1971, working as a general-assignment reporter for the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pennsylvania, near his alma mater, Haverford College. Notwithstanding his father's vocation, Barry decided "early on" that he was an atheist. Īs an alumnus of a Quaker-affiliated college, he avoided military service during the Vietnam War by registering as a religious conscientious objector. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Haverford College in 1969. Crittenden Junior High School (both in Armonk), and Pleasantville High School, where he was elected "Class Clown" in 1965. He was educated at Wampus Elementary School, Harold C. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge." Early life and education īarry was born in Armonk, New York where his father, David W. Barry's honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary (1988) and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (2005).īarry has defined a sense of humor as "a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason.
He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children's novels. David McAlister Barry (born July 3, 1947) is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005.
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