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Common Nonsense
Sincerely, Andy Rooney
My War
Sweet and Sour
Not That You Asked...
Word for Word
Pieces of My Mind
And More by Andy Rooney
A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney
The Fortunes of War
Conquerors Peace (with Bud Hutton)
The Story of The Stars and Stripes (with Bud Hutton)
Air Gunner (with Bud Hutton)
| January 14, 1919 | Andrew Aitken Rooney is born in Albany, New York, to Walter Scott and Ellinor Rooney. |
| 1932-1938 | attends The Albany Academy |
| writes for student magazine The Cue | |
| 1938-1941 | attends Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, where he becomes editor of Colgates magazine The Banter |
| 1941 | drafted into the Army, heads to training in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, followed by Camp Blanding, Florida |
| arrested outside St. Augustine, Florida, for sitting in the back of the Army bus alongside African American soldiers | |
| 1942 | marries Marguerite Howard |
| arrives in Perham Downs, England, with the 17th Field Artillery | |
| joins the Armed Forces newspaper The Stars and Stripes in their London office | |
| meets United Press reporter Walter Cronkite, Stars and Stripes correspondent Don Hewitt (who would become the executive of 60 Minutes), and Edward R. Murrow | |
| 1943 | flies with the Eighth Air Force on the second American bombing raid on Germany |
| 1944 | lands on Utah Beach in Normandy, three days after D-day |
| encounters Ernest Hemingway at hotel outside Paris and finds him ill-mannered | |
| enters Paris with the French Army the day the city is liberated from Germany | |
| Air Gunner (written with Bud Hutton) is published | |
| 1945 | discharged from the Army |
| 1946 | The Story of the Stars and Stripes (written with Bud Hutton) is published |
| MGM buys movie rights to The Story of the Stars and Stripes for $55,000 (Rooney and Hutton are hired by MGM to work on the script) | |
| assigned by Cosmopolitan to cover postwar Europe with Bud Hutton in ten pieces | |
| 1947 | returns to Albany, New York, and embarks on a freelance career |
| Conquerors Peace: A Report to the American Stockholders (written with Bud Hutton), which derives from the Cosmopolitan assignment, is published | |
| daughter Ellen Rooney is born | |
| 1949 | joins CBS as a writer for megawatt radio and TV personality Arthur Godfrey; writes for The Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts and Arthur Godfrey Time until 1955 |
| 1950 | daughters Emily and Martha Rooney are born |
| 1951 | son Brian Rooney is born |
| 1952 | begins his love affair with woodworking |
| 1957 | adapts E. B. Whites essay Here is New York for TV |
| 1959-1965 | writes for The Garry Moore Show, for Victor Borge, Herb Shriner, and Bob and Ray and contributes to CBS News The Twentieth Century, Adventure, Calendar, and The Morning Show |
| 1962 | The Fortunes of War: Four Great Battles of World War II is published |
| begins work with CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Harry Reasoner on a series of TV specials that include pieces on bridges, hotels, and the English language | |
| 1964 | writes his first television essay, An Essay on Doors |
| 1965 | writes television essay on Frank Sinatra narrated by Walter Cronkite and produced by Don Hewitt |
| 1966 | receives Writers Guild of America Award for best TV documentary for The Great Love Affair |
| 1968 | writes Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed, narrated by Bill Cosby, and is awarded a Writers Guild Award and an Emmy Award for his script |
| appears for the first time on television on the 60 Minutes broadcast Digressions with Palmer Williams | |
| 1970 | quits CBS after their refusal to air his An Essay on War |
| 1971 | An Essay on War is aired on PBSs The Great American Dream Machine and receives a Writers Guild Award; for the first time, narrates his own piece on air |
| joins ABC, following Harry Reasoner | |
| 1972 | returns to CBS to continue write, produce, and narrate full-length pieces for 60 Minutes and to write for various CBS broadcasts |
| 1974 | writes and appears in his celebration of New York, In Praise of New York City |
| 1975 | writes and stars in the CBS prime-time feature Mr. Rooney Goes to Washington |
| is awarded a Peabody for the piece, as well as a Writers Guild Award for best TV documentary | |
| 1976 | writes and stars in the CBS prime-time feature Mr. Rooney Goes to Dinner, for which he receives a Writers Guild Award |
| 1977 | writes and stars in the CBS prime-time feature Mr. Rooney Goes to Work |
| 1978 | Don Hewitt airs Rooneys humorous on-air segment Three Minutes with Andy Rooney as a summer fill-in for the Point/Counterpoint face-off between Shana Alexander and James Kilpatrick |
| A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney replaces Point/Counterpoint | |
| receives an Emmy Award for Who Owns What in America | |
| 1979 | receives a Writers Guild Award for Happiness: The Elusive Pursuit |
| 1979-present | syndicated column is published and distributed through Tribune Media |
| 1981 | A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney (the book) is published and quickly becomes a best seller |
| is awarded a News and Documentary Emmy for A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney | |
| 1982 | And More by Andy Rooney is published |
| receives a second Emmy award for A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney | |
| 1984 | Pieces of My Mind is published and becomes a best seller |
| Word for Word is published | |
| 1989 | Not That You Asked... is published |
| 1990 | suspended by CBS for three months for remarks that were perceived as racist and homophobic; re-hired four weeks later (60 Minutes ratings fell 20 percent without A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney) |
| 1992 | Sweet and Sour is published |
| 1995 | My War is published |
| 1999 | Sincerely, Andy Rooney is published |
| 2000 | My War is reissued and becomes a best seller |
| 2002 | Common Nonsense is published |
| 2003 | Years of Minutes is published |
| awarded a Lifetime Achievement Emmy and the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award | |
| 2004 | wife Marguerite (Marge) dies |
| 2006 | Out of My Mind is published |
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