Roy Blount Jr.

Roy Blount Jr.
Roy Blount Jr. at the 2007 Texas Book Festival.
Born	Roy Alton Blount Jr. (1941-10-04) October 4, 1941 (age 75) Indianapolis, Indiana
Occupation	author, reporter, humorist
Website	Official site

Roy Alton Blount Jr. (/ˈblʌnt/; born October 4, 1941) is an American writer, speaker, reporter, and humorist. He appeared as himself in Treme. He performs with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock band composed entirely of writers. He is also a former president of the Authors Guild.

Blount was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended Ponce de Leon Elementary School and graduated from Decatur High School in Decatur, Georgia, where he was class president and editor of the school newspaper, The Scribbler. He received the Grantland Rice Journalism Scholarship to study journalism at Vanderbilt University where he distinguished himself and was Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. He went on to Harvard University, where he received his MA degree.

Blount was a staff writer and associate editor with Sports Illustrated magazine from 1968 to 1975, and has continued to contribute to the magazine thereafter.

In 2002, he narrated The Main Stream, a PBS documentary about the Mississippi River. As of 2011, he is featured regularly as a panelist on the NPR news/comedy quiz show, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. He has also been a recurring guest on A Prairie Home Companion. In May 2010, he made a cameo appearance on HBO's series Treme about post-Katrina New Orleans.