Bob Smiley (born June 28, 1977, in

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) is an American TV/film writer-producer and partner in the Humble Picture Company. He is a Writers Guild of America-award winner for his work in kids' TV and the author of two books, the 2008 memoir ''Follow the Roar'' and the 2012 novel ''Don't Mess with Travis''.https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Mess-Travis-Bob-Smiley-ebook/dp/B006ZL1JS0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524244600&sr=8-1&keywords=don%27t+mess+with+travis+book He has also been a contributing writer to

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TV career

Smiley is a writer and producer on the Netflix series ''

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''. Before that, he executive produced the Disney Channel pilot '' Forever Boys''. He has also written for ''

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'' on

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'' on

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Humble Picture Company

In 2016, Smiley founded the Humble Picture Company with writer Grant Nieporte. Their inaugural producing project is a film adaptation of the book '' Hope Heals''.

Follow The Roar

In 2008, Smiley followed

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from the gallery for the entirety of Woods' season and wrote a memoir about the adventure. Smiley came up with the idea after following Tiger for the second round of the

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in December 2007. Smiley wrote an article for espn.com about the round, in which Tiger shot a tournament-record 62.

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Humble Picture Company

References

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