Tony Lazzarini

Born and raised in San Francisco, Tony Lazzarini now resides in Marin County, California with his wife, Arlene. In 1985 his Christmas holiday musical play, Tale of the Toy Soldier, won him a national playwriting contest and has been produced by numerous theater groups in Northern California.

His first book, Never Trust A Man In Curlers, received a "Best Book of the Year" award in 1998 from the North American Bookdealers Exchange based in Cottage Grove, Oregon.

An IBM Customer Engineer for ten years, he contributed articles for its district publication, Bay Window, and was involved with new product announcement programs.

He has written three other plays, Company Stock (another musical) Buddies, a story of two life long friends, and premiering in the 2010, Looking for.......

Serving in Vietnam with the Army's 25th Infantry Division, he flew over 250 missions as a helicopter door gunner and received several medals for valor. His award winning book, Highest Traditions, transports its readers back to the years 1966 and '67 and into the skies of Vietnam on a UH-1D (Huey) assault helicopter.

His short film is a supplement to the book and a new concept in book marketing. The BVD (BookVideoDisc) combines era correct film footage, personal photographs and original songs and music combined with narrated book excerpts. This combination supply's the reader with a better visual and emotional feel to subjects not familiar to them.

He is past President of the Military Writers Society of America and partner of Voyager Publishing.

In 2009, he made an entry into the world of film making as the director of the full lenght documentary, Arabian Silk-Horses of Endurance.

Tony's free time finds him working on one of his collector cars or taking excursions on his motorcycle with his wife. He has held competition licenses with S.C.C.A. and I.M.S.A. and races a 1968 AMX vintage racecar in events in California and Nevada.