About the Author

Tony Vanderwarker was raised in New England, went to Phillips Andover and Yale, served in the Peace Corps and graduated from NYU with a B.S. in Cinema. Worked in the film business in New York and made a full-length feature film. Then he went into advertising in Chicago. He cut his teeth on McDonalds (twoallbeefpattiesspecialsauce, Big Mac Attack) then moved to New York as Creative Director. When the agency merged, he moved back to Chicago and founded his own shop where he did Be Like Mike with Michael Jordan for Gatorade. He has published three books, Writing With the Master, Sleeping Dogs, and Ads For God. He has four grown children and now lives on a farm outside Charlottesville with his wife, four dogs, a horse and a Sicilian donkey named Jethro.