| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Paul Brock, interviewer.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Los Angeles, California 2007 April 19.
Recorded Los Angeles, California 2008 September 19.
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| Summary: | Screenwriter and author Antwone Quenton Fisher was born on August 3, 1959, outside of Cleveland, Ohio. He grew up in several foster homes while not knowing his biological parents. He lived with the Picketts, a foster family who physically, sexually and emotionally abused him, for fourteen years. The Picketts then kicked him out of their house and he attended George Junior Republic School in Pennsylvania. After graduation, Fisher returned to Cleveland. He then spent eleven years in the U.S. Navy, after that as a federal corrections officer, and then he was hired as a security guard for Sony Pictures. After rediscovering his biological family, Fisher wrote his autobiography, Finding Fish. He sold the film rights to his story to 20th Century Fox; and, in 2002, the film Antwone Fisher was released. After that, Fisher worked as a screenwriter, director, author, and poet. His book A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie: And Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life was published in 2010.
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