More than a how-to book. More than a nude beach update. "American Nudist" is the story of a Hawaii- born nudist's unique life, his personal and political struggles and the creative work that resulted. "American Nudist" collects journalist/filmmaker Tony Young's published and unpublished articles on the naturist lifestyle written during his college years, chronicles his experiences organizing the Hawaii Skinnydippers in the mid-1990s, along with his controversial poetry and short stories. All this and a nude beach guide to the Hawaiian Islands.
According to Photographer/Producer Clinton H. Wallace's introduction, this book is "a spiritual quest, full of triumphs and failures, the ultimate significance of Young's journal resides not only in his contribution to our knowledge of the nudist lifestyle but reminds us how incomplete that knowledge is."
Second Edition, Revised and Updated for 2016

Tony Young is a prolific freelance writer with articles, fiction, and drama printed in Naturist newspapers and magazines beginning in the 1990s, including Bare in Mind, N: Nude and Natural, Naturally, and Naturist Life International.
Young graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1992 with a B.A. in English and Theatre and is currently active in the Hawaii theater scene. In 1996, he won the Kumu Kahua Playwriting Award for One Acts for his play, "Accumulating Scars."
He has also written several screenplays and starred in the feature film version of "American Nudist." Screenwriting credits include, "The Last Eve" and Cinema Epoch's "Violent Blue" and "Blue Dream" the latter starring James Duval and Dominique Swain; "Blue Dream" premiered at the San Francisco Indiefest in February of 2013, and went on to become the official selection at the Boston Underground Film Festival and the Gold Coast Film Festival in Australia.