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About Ari Newman Books

Raised in Providence, Rhode Island, Ari Newman is a film producer, lecturer, writer, amateur gourmet chef, and a community activist for which he was honored with the first Charlotte Bloomberg Award presented to him in 1993 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. During his senior year at Boston University he produced his first feature film, Squeeze, which was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and released by Miramax Films. His films have appeared at countless international film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival, at which Next Stop Wonderland was purchased for one of the largest sums ever paid for a Sundance film. In the United States he released All My Loved Ones starring Rupert Graves as Nicholas Winton, the stockbroker who organized the Kindertransport which saved the lives of over 600 children during World War 2 and was Slovakia's official Best Foreign Language Film submission to the 72nd Academy Awards. His most famous film is National Lampoon's Van Wilder considered by many to be Ryan Reynolds break out film. Mrs. Vanderbilt is his second book. In early March 2017 he released AMERICA FIRST A Modern Fable, a story about a modern day civil war which became the first book to have been both written and published after the 2017 Presidential Inauguration.