John Warner (writer/editor)

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John Warner (born 1970) is an American writer and editor. He is the author of three books and the editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He is a frequent contributor to The Morning News and has been anthologized in May Contain Nuts, Stumbling and Raging: More Politically Inspired Fiction, and The Future Dictionary of America. He frequently collaborates with writer Kevin Guilfoile.

He is the "Chief Creative Czar" of TOW Books a publishing imprint dedicated to humorous books distributed by F+W Publications Inc..

Warner was born in Northbrook, Illinois. His great uncle is the American writer Allan Seager.

He teaches at Clemson University in Clemson, SC. His focus is creative writing. Currently, he is the director of a Humor Creative Inquiry. In this inquiry, he's working to teach students what humor is and how to create it. This three course series will result in a student publication in 2008.

[edit] Works

As Author

"So You Want to Be President?" (2008) (ISBN 1-582-97519-1)
Fondling Your Muse: Infallible Advice from a Published Author to the Writerly Aspirant (2005) (ISBN 1-582-97348-2)
My First Presidentiary (2001) (with Kevin Guilfoile) (ISBN 0-609-80818-4)

As Editor or Co-Editor

Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists" (2006) (ISBN 0-307-27720-8)
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category (2005) (ISBN 1-400-07685-4)