Stephen Grider:
CLASS OF 1976
Bonner Springs High SchoolClass of 1976
Bonner springs, KS
Stephen's Story
Stephen is from Bonner Springs, Kansas. He is single. His schools include Bonner Springs High School. He later attended The University of Kansas (Journalism, English, Political Science). He works(ed) at POET AND AUTHOR, AUTHORS.
Stephen's interests include Mystery Writers of America. Music he likes includes Jim Messina, Lowell Fulson, Gregg Allman. Books he likes include Dear Writer Revisited, The Dead Wall, "That Which Way". Movies he likes include All The President's Men, Independent Spirit Films, The Maltese Falcon.
One of Stephen's favorite quotes is:"Who am I? I'm a poet. What do I do? I write. How do I live? I live. (Giacomo Puccini)".
More about Stephen:"I was born in Kansas City in 1958.
The year after the fall of Saigon saw me enlisted in the United States Army. For three years I served with the field artillery in West Germany. Later, after too many years in a college classroom, I took work as a newspaper reporter and editor. Some articles from that period found homes on the AP and UPI wire services.
While at the University of Kansas, I earned a BA in political s...Expand for more
cience and minored in English and journalism. I had the pleasure, and good fortune, to study creative writing under the novelist, Carol Hebald. "You do write well," she said.
Those words continue to provide a wellspring of encouragement that has kept me writing poetry, short stories and now novels.
Creative writing began, under a hissing steampipe, in a basement apartment in Brooklyn, New York. While penning verse longhand, I studied poetry under the poet, Hugh Seidman, at the New School University in Greenwich Village.
Three volumes of poetry have been published under my name, and a volume of short stories. I am currently at work on the second novel in The Lou Palmer Crime Series. The stories feature a retired New York mobster, who owns the hottest nightclub in D.C., and his gambler sidekick. I have playfully nicknamed the series: Casablanca with firepower. I promise outrageous conspiracies for the duo to unravel, fused with action, sex and intrigue.
Since leaving New York City in the mid-90s, I've enjoyed living in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Falls Church, Virginia.".
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