Christopher Tennant is an American magazine editor, artist, and author of The Official Filthy Rich Handbook, published by Workman Publishing in June 2008.

The Official Filthy Rich Handbook—a satirical guide to fitting in with America’s “top .0001 percent”—was pitched as a “quasi-sequel” to the best-selling 1980 classic The Official Preppy Handbook, also published by Workman. It was excerpted in the June 2008 issue of Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...

, and received notice for its effusive blurbs by Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. is a best-selling American author and journalist. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.-Early life and education:...

, Dominick Dunne

Dominick Dunne

Dominick John Dunne was an American writer and investigative journalist, whose subjects frequently hinged on the ways in which high society interacts with the judicial system...

, and P. J. O'Rourke

P. J. O'Rourke

Patrick Jake "P. J." O'Rourke is an American political satirist, journalist, writer, and author. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on...

, who called it "A paragon of naked wit."

After stints at New York magazine and Talk

Talk (magazine)

Talk was an American magazine published from 1999 to 2001.When it was launched as a joint venture between Miramax and Hearst Publishing, under the editorship of Tina Brown , it generated notoriety for its celebrity profiles and interviews...

, in 2003 Tennant co-founded Radar magazine and Radaronline.com, the on-again, off-again satirical pop culture magazine and web site. He left the magazine in February 2008 to finish work on his book.

According to the New York Post, Tennant coined the popular portmanteau "celebutard" as a "Page Six" freelancer in 2006.

Tennant graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

 in 2000 with degrees in political science

Political science

Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

 and journalism

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

. While at Madison, he served as Editor in Chief of the Badger Herald

The Badger Herald

The Badger Herald is a newspaper serving the University of Wisconsin–Madison community. Founded in 1969, it is one of America's first independent daily student newspapers. The paper is published Monday through Friday during the academic year...

, the nation's largest independent daily student newspaper. From 2008 to 2010 he was the Executive Editor of The Daily, a cheeky fashion glossy distributed at New York Fashion Week

New York Fashion Week

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. He is currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and editor at large of Playboy

Playboy

Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

.

In 2011, he launched a side career making Victorian

Victorian

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-style aquatic dioramas

He lives in Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village, , , , .in New York often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families...

 and Bellport, New York.

Official Filthy Rich Handbook

• The Official Filthy Rich Handbook (official site)
• "The Laugh of Luxury", Boston Globe (profile)
• "The Filthy Rich Celebrate Their Bible", Vanity Fair
• "The £5o Club", The Times (book excerpt)
• "Summer Reading List", Style.com
• "Jet Set Confidential", BlackBook (book excerpt)
• "A Filthy Good Time", New York Posts "Page Six"
• "A Beautiful Day in June", New York Social Diary
• "Find of the Day", Forbes
• "Recommended Reading", Harper's Bazaar
• "That's Rich!", Boston Herald
• “Lifestyles of the Rich and Ridiculous”, Boston Globe (video interview)
• "Smoking Hot Reads For Beach-Bound Travelers", CTV Canada
• “Love That Wealth”, New York Post
• BlogTalk Radio (audio interview)
• Sound Authors (interview transcript)
• “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”, New England Cable News (video interview)
• Valleywag.com (tagged posts)
• New York Times T magazine (guest blog posts)

Aquatic Cases

• Aquatic Cases (official site)
• "Fresh Picks in Design", Wall Street Journal
• "Aquatic Style", New York Post
• "Playboy Editor Jimmy Jellinek Gets Crabs From VF Contributor Christopher Tennant", New York Observer
• "Backstory: Christopher Tennant's Aquatic Cases", AOL Shelterpop
• "Inside Christopher Tennant's Wild Underwater Worlds", Avenue

Journalism

• Vanity Fair (article archive)
• New York (article archive)
• "The Consiglieri of the Magazine World", Gawker