Beard, a great-grandson of Vice President John C. Breckinridge, was born into a well-to-do family and grew up at the Westbury Hotel on East 69th Street in Manhattan.
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The pieces in the book were created by regular contributors to the National Lampoon including Michael O'Donoghue, Henry Beard, Doug Kenney, Sean Kelly, Tony Hendra, P.J. O'Rourke and Ed Subitzky as well as Terry Southern and William Burroughs.
In The Book of Sequels by Henry Beard, Christopher Cerf, Sarah Durkee, and Sean Kelly, "Wrassle-Ass" appears in a section called "Adult Sequels".