The Resume

(March 2, 1930-May 14, 2018)
Wrote 'The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,' 'The Pump House Gang,' 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,' 'The Right Stuff,' 'The Bonfire of the Vanities,' 'A Man in Full' and 'I am Charlotte Simmons'
Popularized writing style called New journalism

Why he might be annoying:

He shares his name with another famous American author.
He wears a trademark white suit.
He wrote an essay called 'My Three Stooges,' ridiculing authors John Updike, John Irving, and Norman Mailer.
On 'A Man in Full,' Norman Mailer wrote: 'At certain points, reading the work can even be said to resemble the act of making love to a three-hundred-pound woman. Once she gets on top, it's over. Fall in love, or be asphyxiated.'
'I am Charlotte Simmons' received the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
One of the passages reads: 'Slither slither slither slither went the tongue, but the hand that was what she tried to concentrate on, the hand, since it has the entire terrain of her torso to explore and not just the otorhinolaryngological caverns.'

Why he might not be annoying:

He attended Washington and Lee University and Yale.
He published two best-selling books on the same day (1968).
He traveled with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on a bus tour through the USA. He stayed sober and avoided drugs the whole time.
He coined several phrases such as 'The Me Decade,' 'The Right Stuff,' 'Good ol' boy' and 'Radical Chic.'

Credit: Call me Calvin

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Animal Names
• Born on Dr. Seuss Day [March 2nd] (Ranked: 1930)
• Call me Calvin's Profiles
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [March] (Ranked: 3021930)
• Celebrities on the Cover of Rolling Stone’s 1,000th Issue [May 7, 2006]
• Daily Beast's 11 Greatest Literary Feuds [2010] (Ranked: 6)
• Dick Cavett Show Guests
• Entertainment Weekly's 100 Best Books [1983-2008] (Ranked: 57)
• Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Entertainers of All Time [1997] (Ranked: 28)
• Golden Girls References
• GQ's Men of the Year [1999]
• Guest Voices on the Simpsons
• I Attended Andy Warhol's Memorial Service (April 1, 1987)
• I Attended Washington and Lee University
• I Attended Yale
• I Died in 2018 (Ranked: 88)
• I Earned a Doctorate
• I Like to Dress All in White
• Look at Me, I'm Using a Cane or Crutches
• Look at Me, I'm Wearing a Tux
• Men who Dress like Pimps
• Mental Floss' 25 Most Influential Books of the Past 25 Years [2009] (Ranked: 18)
• Modern Library's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century (Ranked: 52)
• People Magazine's 25 Most Intriguing People [1979]
• People who Have Similar Names on Am I Annoying (Ranked: 154)
• People with Tom, Dick or Harry in their Names
• Profiles 13251-13500 (Ranked: 13387)
• Satirists and Wits
• Satirized on the Simpsons
• Sissies
• Vanity Fair's International Best Dressed Hall of Fame - Males (Ranked: 1984)
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 20180514)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 39 Votes: 17.95% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 36 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 112 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 26 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 37 Votes: 67.57% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 38 Votes: 65.79% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 71 Votes: 54.93% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 126 Votes: 59.52% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 250 Votes: 56.40% Annoying