Barack Obama's speechwriter Jon Favreau

The baby-faced wunderkind who has written the first words Barack Obama will deliver as President is poised to make history as the youngest person ever to write an inaugural address.

Jon Favreau, 27, has spent the last two months working for up to 16 hours a day on the speech in locations all over Washington, from the Penn Quarter Starbucks to his new, still-unfurnished apartment in the city’s upmarket Dupont Circle.

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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - Jan 19, 2009 - 11:47 AM PST
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