Ted Schwarz Papers

Ted Schwarz (1945-), free-lance writer, professional photographer, teacher, comedy writer, humor columnist, investigative writer, and screenwriter, has authored or co-authored more than 70 books and 2,000 articles. A comedy writer for NBC and syndicated humor writer for the comic strip Badge Guys for Newspaper Enterprise Association (with cartoonist Chuck Bowen), Ted Schwarz has written humor columns that have appeared in such publications as the Detroit News, the Akron Beacon Journal, and the Toledo Blade. He has also done continuity writing for radio and various treatments for television and motion pictures. Schwarz's articles have appeared in numerous publications including Family Circle, Physician's Management, Writer's Market, Saturday Review, Reader's Digest, Coins, Numismatic News, Rangefinder Magazine, Tucson Magazine, and others. He has been a contributing editor of Stamp News and Physician's Management.

Schwarz's writing interests cover a wide variety of subjects, including how to books on photography, child development, coin and stamp collecting, hobbies, cults, personal safety, dissociative identity disorder, psychology, business, investments, health, medicine, as-told-to autobiographies, and biographies. He has also written fiction, including developing projects for television and writing novels, especially mysteries. He has been quoted as saying I write literally anything.

Schwarz writes under his own name and also writes with the teller of the story, as in DeLorean (autobiography), or will ghost write where his name does not appear at all, whether for a medical doctor or a business manager. Schwarz is perhaps best known for his New York Times best seller DeLorean (1985) and his Hillside Strangler: A Murderer's Mind (1981). His 1977 book, The Five of Me (with Henry Hawksworth) formed the basis of a CBS Movie of the Week.

In addition to writing, Schwarz has taught as a part-time instructor in writing at Pima College and Yavapai College and served as adjunct professor of journalism and mass communication at Northern Arizona University. He has also been a teacher for the Writer's Digest School and coordinates write-on, Cleveland. He is a member of the Authors Guild, Authors League of America, Writers Guild of the American West, Numismatic Literary Guild, and Mystery Writers of America.