Roy Blount, Jr. at the 2007 Texas Book Festival.

Roy Alton Blount, Jr. (born October 4, 1941; IPA: blʌnt) is an American writer. Events 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This concise chart shows the most common applications of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA to represent English language pronunciations The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Best known as a humorist, Blount is also a reporter, actor, and musician with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band composed entirely of writers. The Rock Bottom Remainders is a Rock and roll band consisting of published writers most of them both amateur musicians and popular English-language Book, Magazine He is also president of The Authors Guild. The Authors Guild is an advocacy organization of and for published authors

Blount was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and graduated from Decatur High School in Decatur, Georgia, where he was editor of the school newspaper, The Scribbler, and Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt University is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in Nashville, Tennessee, Recently he guided American television audiences down the Mississippi River, narrating the documentary The Main Stream for PBS. The Mississippi River is the second longest River in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the As of 2007 he is featured regularly as a panelist on the NPR news/comedy quiz show, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! is an hour-long weekly radio News quiz Game show produced by Chicago Public Radio and National Public Radio On the show, Blount is known for outrageous dead-pan comments which frequently reduce the panel to tears of laughter, such as his discussion of "E.J. Junior Senior Junior High School". Ester James Junior III (born December 8, 1959 in Salisbury North Carolina) is a former American professional football player who

External links

• Official site
• 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990 interviews with Roy Blount, Jr. by Don Swaim at Wired for Books
• Roy Blount Jr. at the Internet Movie Database