Warren Boroson is a financial columnist with the Daily Record of Morris County, N.J., and his columns are syndicated to 200 Gannett newspapers.

He won the top business news-writing award from Rutgers/CIT for the year 2000, an award he had also won in 1990. In 1996, he won the Investment Company Institute/American University personal finance writing award. In 2002 and 2004 he won the NJ Press Association's top business-writing award.

Boroson has written more than 20 books, including "Keys to Investing in Mutual Funds" (Barrons) and "How to Buy a House for Nothing (or Little) Down" (Wiley). His most recent book is "How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett" (Wiley).

He was formerly on the staffs of Money Magazine and Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance Magazine, and he has had articles published in the New York Times Magazine, Woman's Day, TV Guide, Better Homes & Gardens, Reader's Digest, Consumer Reports, Family Circle, Word Study, Across the Board, Cosmopolitan, and elsewhere.

He teaches at the New School University, the College of Morris in Randolph, N.J. He has taught at Fairleigh Dickinson, Ramapo College, and Rutgers University.

Boroson is a graduate of Columbia College (Phi Beta Kappa) and lives in Hackensack, N.J., and Woodstock, N.Y.