Vince Vawter is an American-born author and illustrator who spent forty years in the newspaper business, retiring as president and publisher of the Evansville (Ind.) Courier & Press. His debut novel, Paperboy, received a Newbery Honor in 2014. Vawter also wrote Copyboy, an adventure in which a young newspaper copyboy travels toward the mouth of the Mississippi River as Hurricane Betsy approaches.
