Anthony DeStefano

The best selling author of A Travel Guide To Heaven (Doubleday, 2003), and Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To, (Doubleday, 2007) Anthony DeStefano has a diverse background in business and media. After attending Stuyvesant High School in New York City, he graduated summa cum laude from St. John’s University in Staten Island with a degree in Philosophy/Theology. He then started a successful chain of electronics retail stores in New York.  During this time he also worked as a regular op-ed columnist for the Staten Island Advance.

In 2003, Anthony’s first book, A Travel Guide to Heaven, was published by Doubleday, as well as Random House Audio, Transworld Publishers in the United Kingdom and a host of other major publishing houses in Europe, Asia and South America. The book was a runaway bestseller and has been published in 16 different languages.

Anthony has received many awards and honors from religious communities throughout the world. In 2002, he was given an honorary Doctorate from the Joint Academic Commission of the National Clergy Council and the Methodist Episcopal Church for "the advancement of Christian beliefs in modern culture." The commission is made up of outstanding Evangelical, Orthodox and Protestant theologians and educators.

Today, Anthony is a successful businessman, and runs three companies based in New York. He is also the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Priests for Life, the largest pro-life organization in the world, and has worked closely with the national director of that group, Fr. Frank Pavone, for twenty years. He is a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a member of the National Religious Broadcasters Organization (NRB), the Royal Institute of Philosophy, in London, and the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), also based in the United Kingdom.

An avid pilot, Anthony serves as a senior member of the US Air Force’s auxiliary Civil Air Patrol. He flies his own vintage, 1959 Cessna L19-E Bird-Dog, which was formerly owned by Judge William P. Clark, National Security Advisor under Ronald Reagan.

In 2010, Anthony will be releasing two children’s books for WaterBrook/Multnomah, called: This Little Prayer of Mine, and Little Star, as well as an adult gift-book for Zondervan, called: I Just Can’t Take it Anymore!

In March of 2011, Doubleday will be releasing Anthony’s eagerly awaited third adult non-fiction book, The Invisible World.