High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Henry Alford is an American humorist and journalist who has contributed to Vanity Fair and The New York Times for over a decade. He has also written for The New Yorker. The author of four books, he won a Thurber Prize for his second, Big Kiss, an account of his attempt to become a working actor. His book about manners, "Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?", was published in January 2012 and he currently writes a column about manners for The New York Times.