Buchwald’s leg amputated
Columnist and novelist Art Buchwald is in a Washington-area hospice after having part of his leg amputated, his assistant said Thursday. Cathy Crary said the leg was amputated below the knee because it wasn’t getting enough blood because of a vascular condition.
The 80-year-old Buchwald also has a kidney problem, she said, but wasn’t undergoing dialysis.
“He’s really doing very well,” Crary said.
Buchwald’s column, which began in the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune in 1949, is not running currently. He won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1982 and his 80th birthday was celebrated last fall at the French Embassy in Washington.
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