Steve Young is best-selling author of his inspiring new book, "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (Tallfellow Press). The multi-talented writer who refuses to be limited by any medium or arena, just may be the busiest and most versatile comic writer and satirist working today. His most recent creation is National Lampoon's mega-popular web site, MoveOnPleaSe.org, was launched in August of 2008.
An award-winning prime time television
writer, Young's work has been seen on such television programs as ABC’s "Boy Meets
World," CBS’s "Cybill," HBO Family’s "Crashbox,"
Disney’s "The Smart Guy," and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
His credentials helped open major doors when he decided to pen "GREAT
FAILURES..." as icons from a variety of fields stepped forward to share their
remarkable stories of success built from adversity. And that ain’t all.
In the past several years, Steve has authored two children's novels ("The 130 Tales of Winchell Mink" Harper-Collins, 2006), and his picture book series, "What If There Were No...?" (Smallfellow, 2003). For television Young scribed an episode of the WB’s new "Family Affair"; appeared all over national TV and radio pitching his own brand of satirical punditry and had his social observations appear in national periodicals from the Los Angeles Times and The National Lampoon, to his own weekly Internet columns on Huffington.com and Newsandopinion.com, and the Writers Guild Of America’s "Written By" magazine where he is also contributing editor. To top it off, he just wrote and directed the popular film short, "My Dinner With Ovitz."
With boundless energy and enthusiasm, we can expect the name of America’s new champion of failure to appear on an ever-growing number of programs and books lining the shelves of bookstores nationwide.*
On October 15, 2002, in his effort to help turn the economy around, Steve was found on Wall Street in front of the nation's financial center, handing out FREE copies of his book.