We invite you to attend the Denver Press Club’s biggest event of the year, the 16^th Annual Damon Runyon Award Banquet.

Our honoree this year is famed political satirist P.J. O’Rourke, the author of 12 books. Three of them have been New York Times bestsellers: “Parliament of Whores,” “Give War a Chance” and “All the Trouble in the World.”

O’Rourke has written for The National Lampoon (he joined in 1973 and became editor-in-chief in 1978), Automobile, American Spectator, Playboy, Esquire, Vanity Fair and Harper’s. He also was the foreign affairs desk chief for Rolling Stone. He is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly.

This is the DPC’s showcase event of the year. Past winners of the prestigious Damon Runyon Award are Jimmy Breslin, Mike Royko, Molly Ivins, Herb Caen, Pete Hamill, Ted Turner, Maureen Dowd, Tom Brokaw, David Halberstam, Ed Bradley, Carl Hiaasen, Seymour Hersh, George Will, Bob Costas, Tim Russert and Rick Reilly.

COST: $80 for members of the Denver Press Club, Denver Woman’s Press Club, Colorado Press Women, PRSA Colorado chapter and for Colorado SPJ; $100 for nonmembers.