Tony Lazzarini
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born and raised in San Francisco, Tony Lazzarini now resides in Marin County, California with his wife, Arlene. Daughter, Danielle, attends high school at Miss Hall’s School for Girls, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His Christmas holiday musical play, Tale of the Toy Soldier, won him a national playwriting contest and is now in its eighth year of production.
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 three other plays in progress: Company Stock (another musical) Buddies, a story of two life long friends, and premiering in the Spring of 2004, 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 newest book, Highest Traditions, transports it’s readers back to the years 1966 and ‘67 and into the skies of Vietnam on a UH-1D (Huey) assault helicopter.
When not writing, Tony can be found working on one of his collector cars or taking excursions on his motorcycle with his wife, Arlene. 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.
Tony Lazzarini- 40 Lucky Dr.-Greenbrae, CA 94904-415-924-6563 Site www.tlazz.com
