Antwone Fisher

Today, we know Antwone Fisher as an award-winning film and literary writer. However, his life did not begin with such promise…

Born Antwone Quenton Fisher in an Ohio prison to a teenaged mother, Antwone became a ward of the state and was placed in foster care immediately. He spent two years in a loving foster home, but when Social Services deemed that his foster mother had become too attached to Antwone – coupled with his father having been murdered and determining a reunion with his birth mother would be too difficult for him – Antwone was placed in another foster home. Unfortunately, he would suffer twelve years of abuse at the hands of this new foster family.

At age 14, when Antwone stood up to his foster mother’s malevolence, she threw him out. Social services sent him to a reform school. However, when he was emancipated out of the school at 17, he found himself homeless.

However, he survived foster care’s cruelties and the brutalities of homelessness by setting on a course of healing when he joined the United States Navy where he served this country for eleven years, and became fluent in Japanese.

After the Navy, Antwone’s path to his current career began with a less glamorous job as a Correctional Officer with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and after three years he took a job as a security officer at Sony Pictures… However, it was there upon hearing about his interest in writing that someone referred Antwone to a free screenwriting course. And the rest, as they say, is history…

Antwone has now worked in Hollywood for sixteen years as a writer and producer, with an impressive fourteen writing projects with the major studios.

~ antwonefisher.net

His latest book is called "A Boy Should Know How To Tie A Tie And Other Lessons For Succeeding In Life."

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