Tony Vanderwarker

Raised in New England, Tony Vanderwarker went to film school at NYU and made documentaries and a full length feature film which didn’t sell so he decided to try shorter films and went into advertising. Fifteen years later, he had his own ad agency in Chicago where he did “Be Like Mike” for Gatorade. When his partners bought him out, Tony finally had a chance to write full time. It only took him fifteen more years to finally get a book published. His new book about working with John Grisham is WRITING WITH THE MASTER:How One of the World’s Bestselling Authors Fixed My Book and Changed My Life (Feb. 2014).