W. Bruce Cameron is the New York Times bestselling author of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, which was turned into a hit television series. He is the # 1 NYT and USA Today bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose (now a major motion picture), A Dog's Journey, A Dog's Way Home, (both also major motion pictures) A Dog's Perfect Christmas and The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man. He was voted the 2011 Columnist of the Year by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and his writing has won the Robert Benchley Award and the Will Rogers Award. He lives in California.