Mary Warlick worked in advertising in New York as CEO of the One Club for Creativity, recognizing creative achievement. She witnessed first-hand major shifts and developments in advertising from 1990-2016. She personally interviewed most of the people featured in Selling Creative and had unprecedented access to their archives. Warlick has produced two Emmy award-winning documentaries on creative leaders in advertising, Art & Copy (2009) and The Real Men and Women of Madison Avenue (2012). Her most recent documentary, The City That Sold America (2018) reveals Chicago's rich history in advertising. Warlick edited Advertising's Ten Best of the Decade 1980-1990. She taught advertising history as an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and at Minneapolis College of Art. Warlick graduated from University of North Carolina at Greensboro, earned a Masters Degree from the University of New York at Binghamton and a Master of Philosophy from Columbia University.
