Tom Lazarus was born in New York City on October 5, 1942. He is best known for writing the 1999 horror film Stigmata, and is the author of the screenwriting manual, The Last Word: Definitive Answers to All Your Screenwriting Questions (2012, Michael Wiese Productions). He has won more than two dozen international film festival honors including Best Educational Film of the Year at the San Francisco Film Festival and a nomination for a CLIO for directing a Fair House Public Service TV spot.

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