Tony Hendra (born 1941) is an English satirist and writer, who has worked mostly in the United States. Educated at St Albans School (where he was a class-mate of Stephen Hawking) and Cambridge University, he was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights revue in 1962, alongside John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor.
I received this book as a Christmas present in 1979. I loved it. My guess is that now (2016) it is outdated and no longer relevant, but at the time I enjoyed it greatly.