Vince Vawter

Vince Vawter is the author of Paperboy, a 2014 Newbery Honor book that has been published in more than twenty languages. His second novel, Copyboy, was published in 2018 and is a Junior Library Guild selection. Manboy, independently published in 2024 by Woodlot Press, completes the popular Paperboy trilogy. A retired newspaper editor and a person who stutters, Vawter draws on a lifetime of writing, editing, and public speaking in his nonfiction work as well as his fiction. The musical Paperboy, adapted from his novel, was performed by the Manhattan School of Music in 2023 in New York City and is being optioned in other markets. Vawter lives with his wife of 53 years in Louisville, Tennessee. His website is vincevawter.com.