John Scott Lewinski

As a writer, John Scott Lewinski hustles around the world, writing for more than 30 international magazines and news sites. He covers lifestyle, travel, cars, motorcycles, technology, golf, liquor, fashion and hard news. Based in Milwaukee, he is represeted by the Fineprint Literary Agency in New York.

In the world of entertainment, John Scott Lewinski writes movies, video game scripts and concepts and books.

His feature script Pennies was the featured work at the Cinestory Script Session Awards and a Nicholl Fellowship Semi-Finalist. Pennies has now been adapted into a stage play set for production in regional theaters. His feature script, Darwin's Game, won entry into the Telluride Independent Film Festival. Forced Perspective won the Wisconsin State Film Commission award for “Best Screenplay Set in the State.”

Lewinski’s interactive writing includes contributions to the million selling CD-ROM games LucasArts' Star Wars: Demolition, Broderbund's Riven, The Sequel to Myst, Command and Conquer II - Tiberian Sun and Command and Conquer - Red Alert. His work on the Command and Conquer franchise includes concepts that remain in the game series more than a decade later. Finally, he wrote, directed and edited the award-winning short play, Emergence.

He hustles around the world, writing for a network of publications recording a total monthly readership of more than 100 million people. He covers lifestyle, travel, golf, cars, technology, liquor, fashion and hard news. As an author, he is represented by the Fineprint Literary Agency, New York.

His publications include BBC Travel, Barron’s, ESPN+, Reader’s Digest, Forbes, Time, , The Atlantic, Yahoo News, Playboy, Fortune, MSN, Marie Claire, Fast Company, Penta, Travel + Leisure, Hemispheres, Ozy, Mansion Global, Robb Report, Men’s Health, American Way, Women’s Health, Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, CNET and Popular Science.

Along the way, he painted a public mural in London; swam with whale sharks off La Paz; chased tornados across five states; drove an amateur stage of the Baja 500; lived like Neolithic man off the Orkney Islands; ice raced cars in Sweden; graduated from Space Camp; drove and fired a Sherman tank in simulated combat; raised a replica of the Star Spangled banner over Fort McHenry; commanded a dog sled through the wilds of Quebec; dove with 22-foot manta rays off the Kona coast; crushed cars under 60 tons of treads; made his own cheese in Sussex; pulled lobster pots in the Atlantic off the Isle of Scilly; played hoops at NBA Legends Camp; won a Dabbawala race through Mumbai; harvested agave in Guadalajara; flew a plane over Los Angeles; blended his own Scotch outside Glasgow; attended cowboy school in Montana; remotely piloted a $65 million lunar lander; competed in a rally race through Lithuania; controlled the Fountains at the Bellagio; blew his own glass in Colorado; drove the car that won the Dakar Rally through Death Valley; played in a cross-country golf tournament in France; snowmobiled north of the Arctic Circle; dislocated a shoulder during a chukker of polo in the South Downs and served as keeper for a day at the London Zoo.

Lewinski covered the Summer Olympics in London for multiple outlets. He toured Cape Town and wrote a five article print spread on that country’s film industry. He visited Rome to write an assassin’s history of The Eternal City; the Isle of Man to experience the TT; Las Vegas to tackle the Consumer Electronics Show and Daytona (for The 500 and Bike Week).

He completed a world tour covering the travel and motoring story of Harley-Davidson’s 110th Anniversary. Along the way, he visited celebratory rallies from New Zealand to Germany, South Africa to Italy. That coverage won the Excellence in Craft Award from the Texas Automotive Writers Association.

He enjoyed interviewing Jack Nicklaus, William Shatner, Greg Norman, James Cameron, Marc Ecko, Jimmie Johnson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Al Michaels and The Stig.

As a golf writer, Lewinski reviews equipment, courses and travel. He played and wrote tales from some of the world’s most legendary courses – St. Andrews, Pebble Beach Golf Links, Whistling Straits, TPC Sawgrass and others. He stood as a judge on the panel selecting the Golfscape Top 100 Golf Courses and currently serves as a golf gear writer for Forbes Vetted.

He became the automotive editor for freelance outlets, traveling to vehicle rollouts for Aston Martin, Rolls-Royce, Lexus, Harley-Davidson, Yamaha and Ducati. He turned laps at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Road America, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Laguna Seca, Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Circuit of the Americas. He rode motorcycles from Miami to Key West, San Diego to Monterey and Bologna to Tuscany. Finally, he trained in rally racing with the Dirtfish School and track driving with the Skip Barber Racing School, Jaguar Performance Driving Academy and the Bondurant Racing School.

His books, Motorcycle 360, Alone in a Room and others are available online and in bookstores. He also cowrote the inspiring non-fiction sports title, A Saint in the City from Tate Publishing.

Lewinski served as a guest lecturer at the University of Notre Dame and Marquette University. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Communication Arts from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a B.A. in Journalism from Marquette. He completed his study of English Literature at Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK.